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Demonstration of altruistic behaviour in rats

Das, U.; Kumari, A.; Sharma, S.; Laxmi, T. R.

2019-10-16 animal behavior and cognition
10.1101/805481 bioRxiv
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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.

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