ArticleScientific reports2021
Observation of rescue behaviour in wild boar (Sus scrofa).
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- Distinct oxytocin signaling pathways synergistically mediate rescue-like behavior in mice.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Norway rats recruit cooperation partners based on previous receipt of help while disregarding kinship.iScience · 2024Article
- Possible relations between emotional contagion and social buffering.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Communication as a Tool for Exhibiting Prosocial Behavior in Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Do They Know What They Are Doing? Cognitive Aspects of Rescue Behaviour Directed by Workers of the Red Wood AntLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Small workers are more persistent when providing and requiring help in a monomorphic ant.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Emotional Contagion and Social Support in Pigs with the Negative Stimulus.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Spontaneous helping in pigs is mediated by helper's social attention and distress signals of individuals in need.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Caring animals and the ways we wrong them.Biology & philosophy · 2023Article
- Assessing mammal trapping standards in wild boar drop-net capture.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Salivary Cortisol, but Not Oxytocin, Varies With Social Challenges in Domestic Pigs: Implications for Measuring Emotions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Life expectancy in ants explains variation in helpfulness regardless of phylogenetic relatedness.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Here, we provide unique photo documentation and observational evidence of rescue behaviour described for the first time in wild boar. Rescue behaviour represents an extreme form of prosocial behaviour that has so far only been demonstrated in a few species. It refers to a situation when one individual acts to help another individual that finds itself in a dangerous or stressful situation and it is considered by some authors as a complex form of empathy. We documented a case in which an adult female wild boar manipulated wooden logs securing the door mechanism of a cage trap and released two entrapped young wild boars. The whole rescue was fast and particular behaviours were complex and precisely targeted, suggesting profound prosocial tendencies and exceptional problem-solving capacities in wild boar. The rescue behaviour might have been motivated by empathy because the rescuer female exhibited piloerection, a sign of distress, indicating an empathetic emotional state matching or understanding the victims. We discuss this rescue behaviour in the light of possible underlying motivators, including empathy, learning and social facilitation.
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