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Antipredator defensive behaviors in a visible burrow system
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Analyzed defensive behaviors in a seminatural setting through videorecordings of groups of 4 male and 4 female rats. Before cat exposure dominant males showed more offensive behavior, eating, drinking, and use of the open area than subordinates. Presentation of a cat in the open area produced changes in four subpatterns of defense over a 24-hr period: withdrawal; immobility and movement constraint; risk assessment; and suppression of nondefensive behaviors. All Ss showed pronounced and consistent changes in each of these patterns, but dominant males alone showed increased risk assessment-related corner runs. These results provide an extensive description of rat defensive behaviors in a seminatural and relatively unstructured situation and suggest that the anxiety process is initially associated with withdrawal and movement arrest, giving way to a crucial and long-lasting risk-assessment stage that provides information leading to either further defensiveness or a return to nondefensive behaviors. This analysis suggests new models for the study of anxiety.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Blanchard, R. J., & Blanchard, D. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- Venue
- Journal of comparative psychology
- Published
- 1989-03
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 70-82
- ISSN
- 0093-4127 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2087
- 0735-7036
- OpenAlex
- W2057317784
- Cited by
- 663
- References
- 7
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- FWCI
- 20.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of comparative psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (AA-06220)
- National Center for Research Resources (RR01825, RR03061)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Keywords
- antipredator behavior, defensive behavior, rats, burrow systems, social dominance, risk assessment, anxiety, withdrawal, immobility
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Appetitive Behavior, Arousal, Behavior, Animal, Cats, Consummatory Behavior, Escape Reaction, Female, Motor Activity, Predatory Behavior, Sexual Behavior, Animal, Social Environment, Rats
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