Chapter 3 Social Enhancement of Food Preferences in Norway Rats A Brief Review1

Since many years, researchers are engaged in experiments that are designed both to analyze the behavioral processes that permit one Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) to influence another's selection of food and to determine how such social influences might facilitate the development of adaptive feeding repertoires by free-living rats. The relative ease with which social influences on selection of food by rats can be studied in the laboratory has …