The mother as hunter: Significant reduction in foraging costs through enhancements of predation in maternal rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 649-654

  Kinsley, Craig Howard ^a   Blair, Jamie C ^a   Karp, Natalie E ^a   Hester, Naomi W ^a   McNamara, Ilan M ^a   Orthmeyer, Angela L ^a   McSweeney, Molly C ^b   Bardi, Massimo M ^d   Karelina, Kate ^a   Christon, Lillian M ^a   Sirkin, Maxwell R ^a   Victoria, Lindsay W ^a   Skurka, Danielle J ^a   Fyfe, Christian R ^a   Hudepohl, Margaret B ^a   Felicio, Luciano F ^c   Franssen, R Adam ^a   Meyer, Elizabeth E A ^a   da Silva, Ilton S ^c   Lambert, Kelly G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Aggression; Lactation; Maternal brain; Motherhood; Neuroplasticity; Predation; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENSIFERA; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FORAGING; FORAGING COST; HUNGER; LACTATION; LATENT PERIOD; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLIC RATE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NULLIPARA; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSATION; SENSORY REGULATION; SOMATOSENSATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHERS; MOTIVATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMELL;

EID: 84921380546     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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