Journal article
Aversive and attractive marking of toxic and safe foods by Norway rats
Abstract
The present series of studies was undertaken to investigate the hypothesis (von F. Steiniger, 1950, Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 7, 356-379; K. A. Stierhoff, & M. Lavin, 1982, Behavioral and Neural Biology, 34, 180-189) that rats poisoned after eating a novel food will mark that novel food in such a way as to dissuade naive conspecifics from ingesting it. Our results provided no evidence of aversive marking of a novel food by rats poisoned …
Authors
Galef BG; Beck M
Journal
Behavioral and Neural Biology, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 298–310
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
May 1985
DOI
10.1016/s0163-1047(85)91645-0
ISSN
0163-1047