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. 2014 Jan 14;3:e01385. doi: 10.7554/eLife.01385

Figure 4. Strain familiarity, even to one’s own strain, is required for the expression of helping behavior.

Figure 4.

Fostered SD rats were raised with LE rats from birth (top diagram) and were not exposed to or able to interact with other SD rats prior to testing. When fostered SD rats were adults, they were tested with trapped stranger rats (‘?’) of either the SD (left) or LE (right) strain. Fostered SD rats did not help trapped SD strangers. In contrast, fostered SD rats helped trapped LE strangers.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01385.007