Mother-offspring recognition in communally nesting degus, Octodon degus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 573-582

  Jesseau, Stephanie A ^a   Holmes, Warren G ^b   Lee, Theresa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

communal breeding; communal nesting; degu; maternal behaviour; mother offspring recognition; Octodon degus

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITUATION; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; OLFACTORY CUE; PARENTAL CARE; RELATEDNESS; RODENT;

OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 38649138322     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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