Left versus right nipple preference in free-ranging infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 266-272

  Jaffe, Benjamin D ^a   Evans, Theodore A ^a   Howell, Sue ^a   Westergaard, Gregory C ^a   Snoy, Philip J ^b   Higley, J Dee ^c  

^a Alpha Genesis Inc   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Infancy; Laterality; Macaca mulatta; Macaque; Nipple preference; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BREAST FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NIPPLES; PARITY; PREGNANCY; SEX FACTORS; SUCKING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33646007331     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20128     Document Type: Article

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