Rat Wrestling

Rough and tumble play is important for human children to learn their own tolerances for pain. Punks up noticed that rats injured by a friend are less likely to play with that friend again. The dominant rat would pin a subordinate rat roughly 70% of the time. But even when they pinned another rat, the dominant rats would get into positions that they had to have known would make it easy for the other rat to flip them over. Something called self-handicapping, which is inventing a weakness you know will be exploited. This is all in the name of fun and trust with the other rat,. It's related to reciprocity, the idea that the other rat should have fun

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