Offspring-induced nurturance; Animalβhum
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Judith M. Stern
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Offspring provide mothers with stimuli that impel their own nurturance. In rats, distal sensory stimuli from pups-sight, sound, odor-contribute to contactseeking, whereas tactile stimuli from pups to dam's snout and ventrum elicit essential maternal behavioral reflexes involved in retrieval, licking