How the neonatal rat gets to the nipple:
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David Eilam; William P. Smotherman
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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One-day-old rat pups adopt a supine posture before attaching to the mother's nipple. Body rotations performed to reach the nipple occur in a typical kinematic structure. First, the pup rotates along the longitudinal axis of the trunk and lies on its side. Next, the pup arches the trunk to achieve a