play fighting by juvenile montane and prairie voles involves attack and defense of the head, neck and shoulders. Since during play animals typically borrow behavior
First paragraph of this paper: play fighting by juvenile mammals generally involves behavioural components that can be predicted from the components involved in the fighting
In a previous study we found that in the intraspecific, resident?intruder fights of males of two vole species there were significant differences in the frequency
play fighting in deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii, prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster, and montane voles, M. Montanus, was compared to that of laboratory rats, Rattus
The body targets contacted, the type of contact made, and the patterns of defense and counterattack elicited by those attacks are examined in the play
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