To say that the living beings learn is an incontrovertible fact, and in the same way that any other biological process, the learning process is the result of an evolutionary process; the most of investigations have been dedicated to the learning topic. However, there is another fact that although it is similar to the learning process, it has distinct characteristics and implications; it is the teaching between animals, this phenomenon has been neglected in the studies of the animal behavior, despite its relevance in an ample range of topics about the animal behavior. From an evolutionary perspective, the teaching can be seen as an altruistic act or a cooperative one, that promotes other people’s learning, and although in the last ten years have appeared diverse investigations related to the topic, in mammals and in birds, there are a lot of aspects to be delimited, such as the parameters and the conditions under which this phenomenon occurs. This investigation hopes to establish if the teaching occurs in Wistar rats using a procedure called operational avoiding