PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ushnik Das
AU  - Anshu Kumari
AU  - Shruthi Sharma
AU  - Laxmi T. Rao
TI  - Demonstration of altruistic behaviour in rats
AID  - 10.1101/805481
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 805481
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/10/16/805481.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/10/16/805481.full
AB  - A pilot study demonstrating complex cognitive abilities of altruism in rats by observing if rats would voluntarily put themselves in distress solely in order to help another conspecific irrespective of kinship and without any expectation of reward in terms of food or mate in return.