Nursing behavior in rats is impaired in a small nestbox and with hyperthermic pups

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-122

  Stern, Judith M ^a   Lonstein, Joseph S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; HEAT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING; RAT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUCKING; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; HEAT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POSTURE; RATS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUCKING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030090637     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199603)29:2<101::AID-DEV2>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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