@article{ref1,
title="Aggression and social experience in domesticated rats",
journal="Journal of comparative and physiological psychology",
year="1975",
author="Luciano, D. and Lore, R.",
volume="88",
number="2",
pages="917-923",
abstract="Small colonies of rats were established, using adult animals that had either received continuous social experience or had been isolated since weaning. Unfamiliar &quot;intruder&quot; rats--with or without postweaning social experience--were exposed individually to the colonies for a 21-hr. period. Behavioral observations and an assessment of the intruder's physical condition indicated that serious fighting, physical injuries, and large weight losses occurred only when an isolation-reared intruder was placed into a colony of socially experienced rats. These results demonstrate that aggression is a joint function of the rearing history of both the colony and the intruder and that social experience plays an important role in the behavioral development of this species.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9940",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}