The Goldilocks Principle: Balancing Familiarity and Novelty in the Selection of Play Partners in Groups of Juvenile Male Rats [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2023 Like many mammals, rats frequently engage in play fighting as juveniles, an activity that influences the development of socio-cognitive skills. Most studies that assess play are based on staged dyadic encounters, implying that some average quantity and ...
Jackson R. Ham, Sergio M. Pellis
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Affiliation, Aggression, and Selectivity of Peer Relationships in Meadow and Prairie Voles
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019 Relationships between adult peers are central to the structure of social groups. In some species, selective preferences for specific peers provide a foundation for consistent group composition.
Nicole S. Lee +5 more
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Partner choice and cooperation in social dilemmas can increase resource inequality
Nature Communications, 2023 Cooperation is more likely when individuals can choose their interaction partner. However, partner choice may be detrimental in unequal societies, in which individuals differ in available resources and productivity, and thus in their attractiveness as ...
Mirre Stallen +4 more
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The neurobiology of sexual partner preferences in rams [PDF]
Hormones and Behavior, 2009 The question of what causes a male animal to seek out and choose a female as opposed to another male mating partner is unresolved and remains an issue of considerable debate. The most developed biologic theory is the perinatal organizational hypothesis, which states that perinatal hormone exposure mediates sexual differentiation of the brain.
Charles E, Roselli, Fred, Stormshak
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Vasopressinergic Neurocircuitry Regulating Social Attachment in a Monogamous Species
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2017 The prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) is a socially monogamous rodent species that forms a lasting connection between mates, known as a pair bond.
Maria C. Tickerhoof, Adam S. Smith
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Keas Perform Similarly to Chimpanzees and Elephants when Solving Collaborative Tasks. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Cooperation between individuals is one of the defining features of our species. While other animals, such as chimpanzees, elephants, coral trout and rooks also exhibit cooperative behaviours, it is not clear if they think about cooperation in the same ...
Megan Heaney +2 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by brain maturation and changes in social engagement. Changes in the social environment influence social behaviors.
Nicole C. Ferrara +7 more
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The Prairie Vole Model of Pair-Bonding and Its Sensitivity to Addictive Substances
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) is an extensively studied model for understanding the neural mechanisms underlying social affiliations and pair bonds.
Sheena Potretzke, Andrey E. Ryabinin
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Fathers' eye colour sways daughters' choice of both long- and short-term partners [PDF]
, 2018 In several species, mate choice is influenced by parental features through sexual imprinting, but in humans evidence is scarce and open to alternative explanations.
Bressan, Paola, Damian, Valeria
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Partner Choice in Raven (Corvus corax) Cooperation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Although social animals frequently make decisions about when or with whom to cooperate, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of partner choice. Most previous studies compared different dyads' performances, though did not allow an actual choice
Kenji Asakawa-Haas +3 more
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