Nursing behaviors of beluga calves (Delp
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Jeanne M. Russell; Jeffrey S. Simonoff; John Nightingale
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The nursing behaviors of two beluga whale calves were observed for the first 55 days postpartum. For both calves, the total time spent nursing in a given period peaked around 7-10 days postpartum and then declined over time. One calf, however, was found to have an unusual decline in nursing at day 3