Offensive and defensive bite-target topographies in attacks by lactating rats
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A behavioral analysis of assaults by resident lactating Wistar rats on sexually inexperienced conspecifics of both sexes was conducted. The occurrences of assaults and the total count of bites were equal for both female and male intruders, but bite-target areas were not the same. Females were bitten in areas other than the snout and head as in male-male attacks, while males were bitten on such areas. This distinction may be attributed to the fact that only male intruders kill the offspring of the resident females. Competition for resources and mates may be the rationale for the attacks on the female conspecific intruders.
Publication Name: Aggressive Behavior
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0096-140X
Year: 1992
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Ethical recommendations for workers on aggression and predation in animals
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A multidisciplinary conference on the ethics of animal use in experiments and behavioral research was conducted at Leiden, Netherlands on Nov 17-18, 1992. The workshop created a special subgroup to discuss and make recommendations on aggression and predation experiments, since these topics constitute a considerable part of behavioral studies. Several ethical guidelines were agreed upon during the meet, touching on a topics such as intervention in natural interactions, animal reuse and humane killings in the presence of post-treatment injuries.
Publication Name: Aggressive Behavior
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0096-140X
Year: 1992
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Relationship between shock-induced aggression and other laboratory tests of agonistic behavior in rats
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The usefulness of the shock-induced aggression paradigm has largely been disputed. Research that exhibited parallel results of independent variables on shock-induced, resident-intruder, and home-cage aggressive behavior were reexamined. The consequences of shock-induced aggressive encounters on resident-intruder behavior, similarities between shock-induced aggression and naturally occurring aggression, and research demonstrating the telling effects of naturally occurring aggressive reaction on shock-induced aggression were also reexamined.
Publication Name: Aggressive Behavior
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0096-140X
Year: 1992
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