Journal article
Responses to novel odors mediate maternal behavior and concaveation in gerbils
Abstract
In a series of three experiments we examined: (Experiment 1) responses to novel odors by early- and late-maturing not-pregnant, pregnant, nursing and postweaning female Mongolian gerbils, (Experiment 2) the response of the same eight groups of female gerbils to unfamiliar pups, and (Experiment 3) the rate of induction of maternal behavior by concaveation in early- and late-maturing nulliparous gerbils. We found: (1) that those females that …
Authors
Clark MM; Spencer CA; Galef BG
Journal
Physiology & Behavior, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 845–851
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 1986
DOI
10.1016/0031-9384(86)90441-5
ISSN
0031-9384