Vivien C Pellis
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Recent Articles
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Ham J, Pellis S, Pellis V
Front Behav Neurosci
. 2024 Sep;
18:1451283.
PMID: 39257567
Social interactions are often analyzed by scoring segments of predefined behavior and then statistically assessing numerical and sequential patterns to identify the structure of the encounters. However, this approach can...
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Pellis S, Pellis V, Ham J, Stark R
Neurosci Biobehav Rev
. 2023 Jan;
145:105037.
PMID: 36621585
The benefits gained by young animals engaging in play fighting have been a subject of conjecture for over a hundred years. Progress in understanding the behavioral development of play fighting...
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Pellis S, Pellis V, Ham J, Achterberg E
Front Behav Neurosci
. 2022 Nov;
16:1033999.
PMID: 36330048
No abstract available.
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Pellis S, Pellis V, Pelletier A, Leca J
Behav Processes
. 2019 Jan;
160:1-9.
PMID: 30650340
Given that many behavior patterns cluster together in sequences that are organized to solve specific problems (e.g., foraging), a fruitful perspective within which to study behaviors is as distinct 'behavior...
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"I am going to groom you": Multiple forms of play fighting in gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus)
Pellis S, Pellis V
J Comp Psychol
. 2017 Sep;
132(1):6-15.
PMID: 28857605
Play fighting is a commonly reported form of play that involves competitive interactions that generally do not escalate to serious fighting. Although in many species what are competed over are...
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Pellis S, Pellis V
Learn Behav
. 2017 Apr;
45(4):355-366.
PMID: 28374262
Play fighting is a common form of play reported among species of mammals, birds, and some other taxa. The competition present in play fighting revolves around gaining some advantage, such...
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Kisko T, Wohr M, Pellis V, Pellis S
Curr Top Behav Neurosci
. 2016 Jan;
30:91-108.
PMID: 26728173
When rats engage in playful interactions, they emit appetitive 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs). We investigated the role of 50-kHz USVs in the playful behavior of both juvenile and adult rats....
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Himmler B, Pellis V, Pellis S
J Vis Exp
. 2013 Jan;
(71):e4288.
PMID: 23353923
Play fighting in the rat involves attack and defense of the nape of the neck, which if contacted, is gently nuzzled with the snout. Because the movements of one animal...
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Pellis S, Pellis V
Behav Brain Res
. 2011 Sep;
231(2):378-85.
PMID: 21924295
Aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascerensis) have highly specialized hands with long digits, especially the thin middle one (D3), which is used for extracting food, such as beetle larvae, under bark. Due to...
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Pellis S, Pellis V, Reinhart C, Thierry B
J Comp Psychol
. 2011 Aug;
125(4):393-403.
PMID: 21823787
Play signals are viewed as important means by which animals inform each other that bites, strikes, and throws that occur during play fighting are indeed playful rather than serious. One...