Adult male rats living together form dominance relationships, with one dominant and the remainder adopting subordinate roles. In previous studies, it was shown that in adult male pairs, the subordinate rat initiates more playful contacts and retains a more juvenile response to the playful contacts b
Juvenilized play fighting in subordinate male rats
โ Scribed by Sergio M. Pellis; Vivien C. Pellis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 564 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0096-140X
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