Parental care and sexual interactions in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) during the postpartum estrus

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 104-112

  Prates, Emerson J ^a   Guerra, Rogerio F ^a  

^a Laboratório de Psicologia Experimental   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Copulatory activity; Locomotion; Mongolian gerbil; Parental care; Postpartum estrus

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; RODENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DELIVERY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GERBIL; GROOMING; LICKING; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PUERPERIUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COPULATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; GROOMING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POSTPARTUM PERIOD;

MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 23944489916     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.04.010     Document Type: Article

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