Play in Rats: Association across Contexts and Types, and Analysis of Structure

Play in Rats: Association across Contexts and Types, and Analysis of Structure

Play has been proposed as a promising indicator of positive animal welfare. We aimed to study play in rats across contexts (conspecific/heterospecific) and types (social: pinning, being pinned; solitary: scampering), and we investigated its structure using behavioral sequence analysis. Group-housed...

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Main Authors: Luca Melotti, Jeremy D. Bailoo, Eimear Murphy, Oliver Burman, Hanno Würbel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Animal Behavior and Cognition 2014-11-01
Series:Animal Behavior and Cognition
Subjects:
Play
Animal welfare
Rat
Social play
Tickling
Online Access:http://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/4/06.Melotti_etal_Final.pdf

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