Orientation response of newborn rabbits to odours of lactating females: relative effectiveness of surface and milk cues
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A new study investigates the responses of newborn rabbits to the odour cues guiding them to the nipples of lactating females. It is shown that they clearly prefer prenursing females in early lactation and that the surface odours from the abdomen of lactating females are as stimulating as the odour of the rabbit milk.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2001
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Chemical and behavioural characterization of the rabbit mammary pheromone
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Research indicates that odour signals emit from odorous material on the body regions of female rabbits to which newborn pups are attracted and grasp the mother orally. The article describes the chemical and behavioural pattern of the pheromone nature of the odour signal of mammary origin in a mammalian species.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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The mammary pheromone of the rabbit: From where does it come?
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A series of experiments were carried out to evaluate the response induced in newborn pups by various histological or secretory substrates collected from rabbit females. Cues were released within the nipple that renders milk behaviorally active and cues distributed over the nipple epidermis thus suggesting dual exocrine sources of active factors from the nipple of lactating rabbits.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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