Journal article
Limits on social influence on food choices of Norway rats
Abstract
We examined social influences on food choices of Norway rats choosing between pairs of diets that differed in their relative palatabilities. We found in two experiments that prior interaction with a demonstrator rat fed either a cayenne-flavoured diet (experiment 1) or a cinnamon-flavoured diet (experiment 2) significantly affected the observer rats' intake of their respective demonstrators' diets. However, as the amount of cayenne pepper in …
Authors
GALEF BG; WHISKIN EE
Journal
Animal Behaviour, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 1015–1020
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 1998
DOI
10.1006/anbe.1998.0867
ISSN
0003-3472