The authors provide initial documentation that juvenile rats emit short, high-frequency ultrasonic vocalizations (high USVs, ?55 kHz) during rough-and-tumble play. In an observational study, they
Introduction: Rough-and-tumble play presents opportunities for young mammals to test social skills in an affiliative context. Because serotonin (5HT) depletion can induce nonaffiliative or openly
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