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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2011 Jan 14;104(2):272–282. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.01.006

Table 3.

Duration and frequency of the intruders’ behavior during the defeat phase of social defeat.

Behavior Duration Frequency
Acute Repeated Acute Repeated
Reactive coping
 Sniffing bedding 5.8±2.9 6.7±5.3 1.9±0.9 2.0±1.3
 Freezing 42.6±16.1 115.7±30.7* 2.5±0.7 7.9±2.1*
 Full submission 10.2±2.8 12.1±2.8 2.5±0.8 1.7±0.2
 Sideways submission 2.8±1.4 5.3±1.6 0.9±0.3 1.7±0.5
 Passive genital sniff 25.0±6.7 32.5±7.3 7.6±1.6 7.4±1.1
 Genital sniff 2.1±0.9 0.0±0.0 1.1±0.5 0.0±0.0*
Proactive coping
 Rearing 43.8±10.4 16.3±4.8* 11.4±2.9 3.2±0.9*
 Defensive burying 0.2±0.1 0.0±0.0 0.2±0.1 0.0±0.0
 Aggression 0.3±0.2 0.2±0.2 0.3±0.1 0.1±0.1
 Escape 0.7±0.3 1.8±1.2 0.7±0.3 2.6±1.2
 Upright defensive behavior 153.4±37.9 182.3±53.7 13.9±2.2 9.8±1.6
 Social interaction 13.7±3.0 4.2±2.1* 4.6±1.0 1.3±0.5*
Neutral
 Locomotion 30.5±5.3 4.5±1.0*** 13.9±2.2 2.9±0.8**
 Self-grooming 20.0±6.7 12.7±5.6 2.5±0.9 1.4±0.6
 Inactivity 34.2±12.7 55.2±17.1 3.1±0.9 10.7±2.7**
*

P<0.05;

**

P<0.01;

***

P<0.001. Values are presented as mean±S.E.M.