Play fighting of homosexual and heterosexual dyads in golden hamsters was studied. The behaviors of male-male (MM), female-female (FF), and female-male (FM) dyads were recorded from the 25th to the 31st day of age. Play fighting activity of heterosexual dyads was depressed since MF and FM dyads exhibited a significantly high physical contact time and engaged in less play fighting, with a significantly lower time spent on such activity. Alternation ratio in the pinning posture was very high and subjects did not differ in the mean number of active (top) and passive pinning (under) in each dyad, showing an inexistence of sex dominance. In most cases, differences in the performances of MM and FF dyads were not significant. We have concluded that play fighting in golden hamsters may be predominantly modulated by environmental stimuli (sex of the partner) rather than by endogenous stimuli (androgen level).
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