The Reproductive Stage and Experience of Sexually Receptive Mothers Alter Their Preference for Pups or Males

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 998-1004

  Agrati, Daniella ^a   Fernández Guasti, Alonso ^b   Ferreira, Annabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

maternal motivation; pup male preference; reproductive experience; reproductive stage; sexual motivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PRIMIPARA; PROESTRUS; PUP (RODENT); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 54049103719     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012585     Document Type: Article

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