Communal nesting and discriminative nursing by captive degus, Octodon degus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1183-1188

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

allomaternal care; communal nesting; communal nursing; degu; kin discrimination; kin recognition; lactation; milk transfer; Octodon degu; radioactive label

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOPARENTAL CARE; BROOD REARING; BURROW; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COLONIAL BREEDING; FECES; KIN RECOGNITION; LABORATORY METHOD; LACTATION; MATERNAL CARE; MILK; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHOSPHORUS; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RADIONUCLIDE; RELATEDNESS; RODENT;

CAVIOMORPHA; OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 70350074057     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.037     Document Type: Article

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