RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Demonstration of altruistic behaviour in rats
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 805481
DO 10.1101/805481
A1 Ushnik Das
A1 Anshu Kumari
A1 Shruthi Sharma
A1 Laxmi T. Rao
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/10/16/805481.abstract
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.