Decrease of response to social separation in preparturient ewes

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-51

  Poindron, P ^a,b,c,d   Soto, R ^b   Romeyer, A ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^d CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bonding; Maternal behaviour; Parturition; Sheep; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

MATERNAL BEHAVIOUR; SHEEP; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030609691     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00767-X     Document Type: Article

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