Failure to Find Altruistic Food Sharing in Rats

Prior research has found that one rat will release a second rat from a restraint in the presence of food, thereby allowing that second rat access to food. Such behavior, clearly beneficial to the second rat and costly to the first, has been interpreted as altruistic. Because clear demonstrations of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Haoran Wan, Cyrus Kirkman, Greg Jensen, Timothy D. Hackenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
rat
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.696025/full