Stimulus control of mouse-killing rats.
- 1 August 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 58 (1), 112-117
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045533
Abstract
Some rats consistently kill mice, and others never do. Fourteen of 16 rats that consistently killed mice never killed rat pups, whereas the other 2 consistently killed both mice and rat pups. The rats that killed mice but not rat pups were studied to identify the stimuli controlling this differentiation. The results indicated that the differentiation was due to an inhibition of killing, controlled by the odor of the pups.Keywords
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