Olfactory mediation of mother–young contact in Long-Evans rats.
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 93 (4) , 708-716
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0077597
Abstract
Long-Evans rat pups [21-day-old], unlike 16-day-old pups of the Wistar strain, find the odors emitted by adult virgin females of their strain attractive, find the odor of the anal excreta of adult virgin females of their strain attractive, find the anal excreta of virgin female rats as attractive as those of lactating rats of their strain and are less attracted by the odor of the anal excreta of a lactating rat than by the odor of the lactating rat itself. Descriptions in the literature of olfactory communication between Wistar rat dams and their young cannot be generalized to rats of other strains or ages.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: