Maternal experience influences the establishment of visual/auditory, but not olfactory recognition of the newborn lamb by ewes at parturition

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 167-176

  Keller, Matthieu ^a   Meurisse, Maryse ^a   Poindron, Pascal ^a   Nowak, Raymond ^a   Ferreira, Guillaume ^a   Shayit, Michal ^b   Ĺvy, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bonding; Maternal behavior; Sensory recognition; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY RECOGNITION; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LAMB; LEARNING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OLFACTORY RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT; SHEEP; SUCKLING; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PARITY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SMELL; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

LAMB; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0041946733     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.10130     Document Type: Article

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