A pheromone to behave, a pheromone to learn: The rabbit mammary pheromone

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 196, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 779-790

  Coureaud, Gérard ^a   Charra, Rachel ^a   Datiche, Frédérique ^a   Sinding, Charlotte ^a   Thomas Danguin, Thierry ^a   Languille, Solène ^b   Hars, Bernard ^b   Schaal, Benoist ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Learning; Mother young relations; Pheromone; Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; LEARNING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; REVIEW; SECRETION; SUCKLING; UDDER;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHEROMONES; RABBITS; SMELL;

EID: 77957114302     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0548-y     Document Type: Review

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