Infant-Mother Recognition in a Social Rodent (Octodon degus)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 166-175

  Fuchs, Thomas ^a   Iacobucci, Paolo ^b   MacKinnon, Katherine M ^b   Panksepp, Jaak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Degu; Infant mother recognition; Octodon degus; Social bonding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OCTODON; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OCTODON; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954771103     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018704     Document Type: Article

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