Maternal cradling and infant nipple preferences in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 305-312

  Tomaszycki, Michelle ^a   Cline, Christopher ^b   Griffin, Beth ^c   Maestripieri, Dario ^a   Hopkins, William D ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain asymmetry; Laterality; Maternal cradling; Nipple preference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OBSERVATION; PARITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0031711837     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199805)32:4<305::AID-DEV5>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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