[Characteristics of the intraspecies interaction of rats with differing zoosocial experience]

It has been found that among white outbred rats with different experience of intraspecies contact four types of reaction to the partner are singled out in the "stranger-resident" test: active, neutral passive, highly-aggressive. Belonging to one or another type is determined by the level and correlation of aggression and intraspecies sociability. Among animals isolated in an adult age, all four types of reaction to the partner are represented while in rats kept in isolation since 13--14th day of life only one type is presented--the active one. For animals of the control group the first three types of reaction are typical. It is revealed that only "late" isolation leads to a pathological increase of aggressivity in a part of the animals; an increase of aggression in "early" isolants may be considered as a consequence of sharp rise of intraspecies sociability. Conclusion is made about principal difference in mechanisms of aggression increase in "early" and "late" isolants.