Do ewes recognize their lambs within the first day postpartum without the help of olfactory cues?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-29

  Terrazas, A ^a   Ferreira, G ^b   Levy F ^b   Nowak, R ^b   Serafin, N ^a   Orgeur, P ^b   Soto, R ^c   Poindron, P ^a  

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

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

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Audition; Maternal recognition; Olfaction; Peripartum period; Sheep; Vision

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SHEEP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; LAMB; LEARNING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PUERPERIUM; RECOGNITION; SHEEP; SMELLING; VISION;

EID: 0032831779     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00045-5     Document Type: Article

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