Non-offspring nursing by a nulliparous pregnant female just before first parturition in free-ranging Japanese macaques

Primates

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-206

  Tanaka, Ichirou ^a  

^a YOKKAICHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japanese macaques; Kinship; Milk secretion; Parturition; Suckling behavior

Indexed keywords

KINSHIP; PARTURITION; PRIMATE; SUCKLING;

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; JAPAN; LACTATION; MACACA; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUCKLING; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; FEMALE; JAPAN; LACTATION; MACACA; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 4344685407     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-004-0075-y     Document Type: Article

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