• Sociosexual behaviors and reproductive success in a group of rats housed in seminatural environment 

      Chu, Xi (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2015-04-20)
      Wild rats employ a rather extensive area for their daily activities and share elaborate burrows with tunnel and chambers. When a female enters estrus, she will copulate with multiple males during the entire period of estrus. In a typical laboratory setting, rat sexual behavior is studied in pairs of opposite sex individuals. Apparently the experimental studies have been performed in this highly ...