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Evidence that resident male albino rats are not immune to attacks by conspecific intruders |
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| Authors: | Barry Fass Paul E Gutermann David A Stevens |
| Abstract: | Offensive behaviors were exhibited by adult intact- and castrated-male Sprague-Dawley rats introduced into established home-cages of male conspecifics. Implications of this result for Adams' 1976] model of intraspecific fighting are presented. |
| Keywords: | rats intraspecific fighting resident-intruder paradigm |