'Conformity' in Norway rats?
'Conformity' in Norway rats?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.11.012
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发表时间：
2008-06-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Whiskin, Elain E.
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作者：
Galef, Bennett G.;Whiskin, Elain E.
在最近的一篇论文中，Whiten &货车Schaik（2007，Philosophical Transactions of the皇家学会伦敦，Series B，362，603-620）提出，尽管动物普遍存在顺从他人行为的倾向，但只有黑猩猩和人类会忽视个人获得的关于上级行为替代方案的知识，并复制他人表达较不有效行为的行为。在这里，我们表明，“观察员”挪威大鼠，褐家鼠，已经了解到，无论是一种食物是有毒的，另一种是安全的，或一种食物味道很好，另一种是不太可口，将忽略他们的个人经验，并选择吃一个难吃的或可能有毒的食物后，与“示范”大鼠吃过的食物。这些观察者大鼠在与食用过它们的示范者大鼠互动后，会吃下同样多的难吃或可能有毒的食物，就像它们没有亲身体验过上级替代品一样。我们讨论的相似性，大鼠的完全依赖社会获得的信息时，在拥有冲突的个人信息的黑猩猩和人类的“一致性”。(c)2008年，动物行为研究协会。由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
In a recent paper, Whiten & van Schaik (2007, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 362, 603-620) suggested that although a tendency to conform to the behaviour of others is widespread in animals, only chimpanzees and humans will ignore personally acquired knowledge of a superior behavioural alternative and copy the behaviour of others expressing a less effective behaviour. Here we show that 'observer' Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus, that have learned either that one food is toxic and another safe or that one food tastes good and another is less palatable will ignore their personal experience and choose to eat an unpalatable or presumably toxic food after interacting with 'demonstrator' rats that have eaten that food. Such observer rats will eat as much unpalatable or presumably toxic food after interacting with demonstrator rats that have eaten them as they would if they had no personal experience of superior alternatives. We discuss the similarity of rats' total reliance on socially acquired information when in possession of conflicting personal information to 'conformity' in chimpanzees and humans. (c) 2008 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.