The social life of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Rats play tit-for-tat instead of integrating social experience over multiple interactions

(2020) Manon K. Schweinfurth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Male Norway rats cooperate according to direct but not generalized reciprocity rules

(2019) Manon K. Schweinfurth et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Emotional Mirror Neurons in the Rat’s Anterior Cingulate Cortex

(2019) Maria Carrillo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Animal Ethics and Behavioral Science: An Overdue Discussion

(2019) Christine E Webb et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Rats display empathic behavior independent of the opportunity for social interaction

(2019) Stewart S. Cox et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Ethological approach to social isolation effects in behavioral studies of laboratory rodents

(2018) Hiroyuki Arakawa   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Neurobiology and consequences of social isolation stress in animal model—A comprehensive review

(2018) Faiza Mumtaz et al.   BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY

Reciprocal Trading of Different Commodities in Norway Rats

(2018) Manon K. Schweinfurth et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) communicate need, which elicits donation of food.

(2018) Manon K. Schweinfurth et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Reproducibility and replicability of rodent phenotyping in preclinical studies

(2018) Neri Kafkafi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Relatedness decreases and reciprocity increases cooperation in Norway rats

(2018) Manon K. Schweinfurth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) in urban ecosystems: are the constraints related to fieldwork a limit to their study?

(2018) Amélie Desvars-Larrive et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Evolutionary Consequences of Social Isolation

(2018) Nathan W. Bailey et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The importance of the altricial – precocial spectrum for social complexity in mammals and birds – a review

(2017) Isabella B. R. Scheiber et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

COMPROMISED FERTILITY IN FREE FEEDING OF WILD-CAUGHT NORWAY RATS (RATTUS NORVEGICUS) WITH A LIQUID BAIT CONTAINING 4-VINYLCYCLOHEXENE DIEPOXIDE AND TRIPTOLIDE

(2017) Gary W. Witmer et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE

Curiosity as an approach to ethoexperimental analysis: Behavioral neuroscience as seen by students and colleagues of Bob Blanchard

(2017) Brandon L. Pearson et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Untangling the neurobiology of coping styles in rodents: Towards neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in disease susceptibility

(2017) Sietse F. de Boer et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Male rats play a repeated donation game

(2017) Grace Li et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Evolution of life in urban environments

(2017) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Empathy for Distress in Humans and Rodents

(2017) Jun Chen   Neuroscience Bulletin

Unbridle biomedical research from the laboratory cage

(2017) Garet P Lahvis   eLife

Experimental evidence for reciprocity in allogrooming among wild-type Norway rats

(2017) Manon K. Schweinfurth et al.   Scientific Reports

Inequity aversion in rats, Rattus norvegicus

(2016) Lina Oberliessen et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cooperation in rats playing the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game

(2016) Ruth I. Wood et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Does a rat release a soaked conspecific due to empathy?

(2016) Lindsay P. Schwartz et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Critical issues in experimental studies of prosociality in non-human species

(2016) S. Marshall-Pescini et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

No Evidence for Audience Effects in Reciprocal Cooperation of Norway Rats

(2016) Manon K. Schweinfurth et al.   ETHOLOGY

Functional analysis of mutual behavior in laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus).

(2016) Lavinia Tan et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Why study cognition in the wild (and how to test it)?

(2016) David J. Pritchard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR

Basolateral amygdala lesions abolish mutual reward preferences in rats

(2016) Julen Hernandez-Lallement et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Predation risk drives social complexity in cooperative breeders

(2016) Frank Groenewoud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global population divergence and admixture of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)

(2016) Emily E. Puckett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Reproducibility Crisis: Are We Ignoring Reaction Norms?

(2016) Bernhard Voelkl et al.   TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adverse Social Experiences in Adolescent Rats Result in Enduring Effects on Social Competence, Pain Sensitivity and Endocannabinoid Signaling

(2016) Peggy Schneider et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Food Neophobia in Wild Rats (Rattus norvegicus) Inhabiting a Changeable Environment—A Field Study

(2016) Klaudia Modlinska et al.   PLoS One

Rats demonstrate helping behavior toward a soaked conspecific

(2015) Nobuya Sato et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Norway rats reciprocate help according to the quality of help they received

(2015) V. Dolivo et al.   Biology Letters

Prosocial Choice in Rats Depends on Food-Seeking Behavior Displayed by Recipients

(2015) Cristina Márquez et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cooperation among Norway Rats: The Importance of Visual Cues for Reciprocal Cooperation, and the Role of Coercion

(2015) Vassilissa Dolivo et al.   ETHOLOGY

Monitoring of Rattus norvegicus based on non-toxic bait containing encapsulated fluorescent dye: Laboratory and semi-field validation study

(2015) Marcela Frankova et al.   JOURNAL OF STORED PRODUCTS RESEARCH

When is emotional contagion adaptive?

(2015) Wataru Nakahashi et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The psychology of cooperation in animals: an ecological approach

(2015) K. McAuliffe et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Reciprocal altruism in rats: Why does it occur?

(2015) Thomas R. Zentall   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Empathy as a driver of prosocial behaviour: highly conserved neurobehavioural mechanisms across species

(2015) Jean Decety et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons

(2015) A. Strandburg-Peshkin et al.   SCIENCE

Rats prefer mutual rewards in a prosocial choice task

(2015) Julen Hernandez-Lallement et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Receiving of emotional signal of pain from conspecifics in laboratory rats

(2015) S. F. Nakashima et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Social interaction with a cagemate in pain facilitates subsequent spinal nociception via activation of the medial prefrontal cortex in rats

(2014) Zhen Li et al.   PAIN

Pro-social behavior in rats is modulated by social experience

(2014) Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal et al.   eLife

Desire for social contact, not empathy, may explain “rescue” behavior in rats

(2013) Alan Silberberg et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Environmental enrichment in female rodents: Considerations in the effects on behavior and biochemical markers

(2013) Catrinel Girbovan et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Transitive or Not: A Critical Appraisal of Transitive Inference in Animals

(2013) David Guez et al.   ETHOLOGY

Communication of Adult Rats by Ultrasonic Vocalization: Biological, Sociobiological, and Neuroscience Approaches

(2013) S. M. Brudzynski   ILAR JOURNAL

How domestication modulates play behavior: A comparative analysis between wild rats and a laboratory strain of Rattus norvegicus.

(2013) Brett T. Himmler et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Transmission of stress between cagemates: A study in rats

(2013) Ibrahim Akyazi et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Social cognition in the rodent: nothing to be sniffed at

(2013) Scott M. Rennie et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Rats, Cities, People, and Pathogens: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Literature Regarding the Ecology of Rat-Associated Zoonoses in Urban Centers

(2013) Chelsea G. Himsworth et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

The secret life of the city rat: a review of the ecology of urban Norway and black rats (Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus)

(2013) Alice Y. T. Feng et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Context and Control: Behavioural Ecology Experiments in the Laboratory

(2012) Dana L. M. Campbell et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Reciprocal cooperation between unrelated rats depends on cost to donor and benefit to recipient

(2012) Karin Schneeberger et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Social competence: an evolutionary approach

(2012) Barbara Taborsky et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Using experiential knowledge to understand urban rat ecology: A survey of Canadian pest control professionals

(2012) Chelsea G. Himsworth et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The Evolutionary Origins of Friendship

(2011) Robert M. Seyfarth et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Ecological drivers of group living in two populations of the communally rearing rodent, Octodon degus

(2011) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The impact of environmental enrichment in laboratory rats—Behavioural and neurochemical aspects

(2011) Joy Simpson et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Cooperative behavior of laboratory rats (Rattus norvegicus) in an instrumental task.

(2011) Sylwia Łopuch et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The Rat Grimace Scale: A Partially Automated Method for Quantifying Pain in the Laboratory Rat via Facial Expressions

(2011) Susana G Sotocina et al.   Molecular Pain

Stress revisited: A critical evaluation of the stress concept

(2011) J.M. Koolhaas et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Experience Modulates Vicarious Freezing in Rats: A Model for Empathy

(2011) Piray Atsak et al.   PLoS One

Empathy and the Laws of Affect

(2011) J. Panksepp   SCIENCE

Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats

(2011) I. B.-A. Bartal et al.   SCIENCE

The surprising empathic abilities of rodents

(2011) Jeffrey S. Mogil   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Effect of Domestication on Aggression in Gray Norway Rats

(2010) Irina Z. Plyusnina et al.   BEHAVIOR GENETICS

Urine-Derived Key Volatiles May Signal Genetic Relatedness in Male Rats

(2010) Y.-H. Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL SENSES

Diving-for-Food: A New Model to Assess Social Roles in a Group of Laboratory Rats

(2010) Bertrand Krafft et al.   ETHOLOGY

Maternal Care and DNA Methylation of a Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase 1 Promoter in Rat Hippocampus

(2010) T.-Y. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Cognitive and Motivational Requirements for the Emergence of Cooperation in a Rat Social Game

(2010) Duarte S. Viana et al.   PLoS One

AN ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IN WILD RATS

(2010) S. A. BARNETT   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

The pleasures of play: pharmacological insights into social reward mechanisms

(2010) Viviana Trezza et al.   TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Novel mutations in the VKORC1 gene of wild rats and mice - a response to 50 years of selection pressure by warfarin?

(2009) Simone Rost et al.   BMC GENETICS

Norway rats

(2009) Bennett G. Galef   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social modulation of learning in rats

(2009) E. Knapska et al.   LEARNING & MEMORY

Commensal ecology, urban landscapes, and their influence on the genetic characteristics of city-dwelling Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

(2009) L. C. GARDNER-SANTANA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Return of the rat

(2009) Alison Abbott   NATURE

The Year of the Rat ends-time to fight hunger!

(2009) Bastiaan G Meerburg et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Ultrasonic calling during fear conditioning in the rat: no evidence for an audience effect

(2008) Markus Wöhr et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

‘Conformity’ in Norway rats?

(2008) Bennett G. Galef et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Transitive inference in non-human animals: An empirical and theoretical analysis

(2008) Marco Vasconcelos   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Epigenetic mechanisms and the transgenerational effects of maternal care

(2008) Frances A. Champagne   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Ultrasonic vocalizations of rats (Rattus norvegicus) during mating, play, and aggression: Behavioral concomitants, relationship to reward, and self-administration of playback..

(2008) Jeffrey Burgdorf et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Effects of enriched environment on animal models of neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders

(2008) Giovanni Laviola et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Epigenetic mechanisms mediating the long-term effects of maternal care on development

(2008) Frances A. Champagne et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Effects of environmental enrichment and social isolation on sucrose consumption and preference: Associations with depressive-like behavior and ventral striatum dopamine

(2008) Juan C. Brenes et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

The ethics of rodent control

(2008) Bastiaan G Meerburg et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Reciprocal Affiliation Among Adolescent Rats During a Mild Group Stressor Predicts Mammary Tumors and Lifespan

(2008) Jason R. Yee et al.   PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE

Sampling bias resulting from animal personality

(2008) Peter A. Biro et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy

(2007) Frans B.M. de Waal   Annual Review of Psychology