On the quantification of suckling intensity in primates

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-42

  Johnson, Rodney L ^a,d   Malik, Iqbal ^b   Berman, Carol M ^c  

^a Charles River Labs Key Lois   (United States)

^b Vata Varan   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactation; Mating readiness; Mother infant; Parturition mating interval; Reproduction; Rhesus monkeys

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NURSING; PUERPERIUM; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTION; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORY NERVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUCKLING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031937716     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199801)105:1<33::AID-AJPA4>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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