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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2025

Juvenile male rats form preferences based on strain when playing in groups but not in pairs.

Jackson R Ham, Diya Jaiswal, Renata Waner-Mariquito, Sergio M Pellis, E J Marijke Achterberg

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Jackson R HamDepartment of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
Diya JaiswalDepartment of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
Renata Waner-MariquitoDepartment of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
Sergio M PellisDepartment of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
E J Marijke AchterbergSection Animals in Science and Society, Neurobiology of Behaviour Group, Department of Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Abstract

Like many young mammals, juvenile rats engage in rough-and-tumble play. Play occurs naturally both in wild and laboratory rats, making it a suitable, ethologically relevant behavior to investigate. In the laboratory, rats are typically housed and tested in dyads, despite living in large colonies in the wild. Consequently, when tested in the lab, rats do not have a choice of partners and are instead paired with whomever the researcher selects. Given that both the amount and style of play rats engage in varies considerably depending on the strain of rat being studied, we tested whether rats select play partners based on strain. To do so, juvenile male Long Evans (LE) focal rats (

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play fightingrough-and-tumble playsocial behaviorsocial conditioned place preferencestrain differencesultrasonic vocalizations

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