The characteristics of suckling stimulation determine the daily duration of mother-young contact and milk output in rabbits

Importance of mother/young contact at pa

Importance of mother/young contact at parturition and across lactation for the expression of maternal behavior in rabbits

✍ Gabriela González-Mariscal; Angel I. Melo; Rosario Chirino; Pedro Jiménez; Carlo 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 184 KB

We prevented mother/pup contact at parturition or across early or midlactation to investigate the importance of such interaction for maintaining maternal behavior in rabbits. When pup contact was prevented across lactation Days 1-7 or 11-17 (by anesthetizing multiparous mothers during the oxytocin-i