Parent-offspring recognition in Brandt’s voles, Lasiopodomys brandti
We investigated social interaction behaviour (amicable versus agonistic) to evaluate parent-offspring recognition in male and female Brandt’s voles. We first examined whether the parents were able to distinguish their own familiar related offspring at the age of weaning from unfamiliar unrelated offspring. Both male and female parents, when encountering unfamiliar unrelated juveniles in a neutral […]
‘Anxiety’ in laboratory rodents: a brief review of some recent behavioural developments
It is clearly difficult to determine which of the multitude of behavioural and physiological indices provides the most reliable indicator of ‘stress’ in any particular animal. Although ‘fear’ and ‘anxiety’ have obvious survival value in feral animals, the induction of intense or chronic states of fearfulness are likely to account for much of the ‘stress’ […]