Novel 31-kHz calls emitted by female Lewis rats during social isolation and social inequality conditions

Summary: Whether commonly used experimental animals show aversion toward inequality of social rewards, as humans do remains unknown. We examined whether rats emitted the 22-kHz distress calls under social reward inequality. Rats showed affiliative behavior for a specific human who repeatedly stroked...

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Main Authors: Shota Okabe, Yuki Takayanagi, Masahide Yoshida, Tatsushi Onaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-03-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223003206