Play and the Development of Social Engagement: A Comparative Perspective
Play has long been considered as either insignificant or irrelevant to normal behaviour development, or as important in the onset of normal behaviour development. Two
Play has long been considered as either insignificant or irrelevant to normal behaviour development, or as important in the onset of normal behaviour development. Two
As pairs of male juvenile sibling rats that are housed together become sexually mature, they develop a dominance-subordinance relationship. These dominance relationships appear to be
Spider monkeys shake their heads so as to facilitate amicable social contact. This occurs frequently during vigorous play fighting, and so is common during the
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
During postweaning development, rats exhibit several well documented trends in their play fighting: (1) It peaks between 30-40 days and then declines with the approach
During competitive interactions, such as fighting and predation, animals perform various actions, some of which are easy to characterize and label, some of which are
play fighting is a commonly reported form of play that involves competitive interactions that generally do not escalate to serious fighting. Although in many species
Play fighting is a commonly reported form of play in the young of many mammals. Most of the studies on the neurobehavioral mechanisms regulating this
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
