Studies of social learning in norway rats: A brief review Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractI review below some of the research on social learning in Norway rats carried out in my laboratory from 1969 to 1980. Two independent lines of research are discussed; both involve analysis in the laboratory of possible instances of social learning first described by observers of free‐living, wild rats. The 1st research program analyzes social interactions important in the transmission of learned food preferences from adult rats to their young. The 2nd examines the possibility that the habit of diving in shallow water for food is socially transmitted from 1 rat to another.

authors

• Galef, Bennett Godfrey Jr

status

• published 

publication date

• July 1982

has subject area

• 1701 Psychology (FoR)
• 1702 Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Animals (MeSH)
• Behavior, Animal (MeSH)
• Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology (Science Metrix)
• Diet (MeSH)
• Diving (MeSH)
• Feeding Behavior (MeSH)
• Female (MeSH)
• Food Preferences (MeSH)
• Imitative Behavior (MeSH)
• Learning (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Parents (MeSH)
• Poisoning (MeSH)
• Rats (MeSH)

published in

• Developmental Psychobiology  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Behavior, Animal
• Diet
• Diving
• Feeding Behavior
• Female
• Food Preferences
• Imitative Behavior
• Learning
• Male
• Parents
• Poisoning
• Rats

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/dev.420150402

PubMed ID

• 7049794

start page

• 279

end page

• 295

volume

• 15

issue

• 4