Scramble competition in newborn domestic rabbits for an unusually restricted milk supply

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1011-1021

  Bautista, Amando ^a   Mendoza Degante, Marisol ^a   Coureaud, Gérard ^b   Martínez Gómez, Margarita ^a,c   Hudson, Robyn ^c,d  

^a CENTRO TLAXCALA DE BIOLOGÍA DE LA CONDUCTA   (Mexico)

^b CENTRE DES SCIENCES DU GOÛT ET DE L ALIMENTATION   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; LACTATION; LAGOMORPH; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 27144530647     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.01.015     Document Type: Article

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