scholarly journals Exploratory behavior, but not aggressiveness, is correlated with breeding dispersal propensity in the highly philopatric thorn‐tailed rayadito

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Botero‐Delgadillo ◽  
Veronica Quirici ◽  
Yanina Poblete ◽  
Elie Poulin ◽  
Bart Kempenaers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Behavior ◽  
Breeding Dispersal ◽  
Dispersal Propensity

Effects of acquired vestibular pathology on the organization of mouse exploratory behavior

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark T. Banovetz ◽  
Rami I Lake ◽  
Ashley A. Blackwell ◽  
Jenna R. Osterlund Oltmanns ◽  
Ericka A. Schaeffer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Behavior ◽  
Vestibular Pathology

scholarly journals Can the Hole–Board Test Predict a Rat’s Exploratory Behavior in a Free-Exploration Test?

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1068
Author(s):  
Wojciech Pisula ◽  
Klaudia Modlinska ◽  
Katarzyna Goncikowska ◽  
Anna Chrzanowska
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Behavior ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
General Hypothesis ◽  
Free Exploration ◽  
Laboratory Rodents ◽  
Board Test ◽  
Motivational Mechanism ◽  
Hole Board ◽  
Hole Board Test

This study focuses on the rat activity in a hole–board setting that we considered a type of exploratory behavior. The general hypothesis is based on the claim that a motivational mechanism is central to both the response to novelty in a highly familiarized environment and the activity in the hole–board apparatus. Our sample consisted of 80 experimentally naive Lister Hooded rats. All rats were tested in the hole–board apparatus. Twenty individuals with the highest hole-board scores and twenty subjects with the lowest hole–board scores subsequently underwent an established free-exploration test. In our study, the scores obtained in the hole–board test had little predictive value for the rats’ activity in the free-exploration test. Based on our previous experience in studying exploratory behavior in the free-exploration test and the data presented in this paper, we suggest that the hole–board test is not an appropriate tool for measuring exploratory behavior in laboratory rodents.

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