Vocal mother-offspring communication in guinea pigs: Females adjust maternal responsiveness to litter size

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kober, Melanie ^a   Trillmich, Fritz ^a   Naguib, Marc ^a,b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVIA; CAVIA APEREA;

EID: 52249122634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-5-13     Document Type: Article

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