PMID: 9526685Apr 4, 1998Paper

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

Developmental Psychobiology
Gabriela González-MariscalJ S Rosenblatt

Abstract

We prevented mother/pup contact at parturition or across early or midlactation to investigate the importance of such interaction for maintaining material behavior in rabbits. When pup contact was prevented across lactation Days 1-7 or 11-17 (by anesthetizing multiparous mothers during the oxytocin-induced milk letdown; Experiment 1), nursing incidence was reduced to 40% and 83%, respectively, on the day following anesthesia withdrawal. Both groups also showed a decreased milk output, long latencies to initiate nursing, and several entrances into the nest box not associated with nursing. In Experiment 2 we prevented mother/litter contact at parturition to determine the specific role of pup contact at this time. We found a reduction in the incidence of nursing on postpartum Day 1 from 80% (in control primiparous mothers) to 33%. By contrast, 100% of both deprived and control multiparous mothers displayed nursing on Day 1. These mothers also showed the unusual behaviors found in Experiment 1 and an extemporaneous nest-building. We conclude that: (a) mother/young contact at parturition is crucial for establishing maternal responsiveness in primiparous does, (b) the experience acquired by raising a previous litter allows the retenti...Continue Reading

Citations

May 12, 2004·Behavioural Brain Research·Gabriela González-MariscalJay S Rosenblatt
Jul 12, 2003·Brain Research. Developmental Brain Research·Mario CabaRae Silver
May 29, 2012·Ecology of Food and Nutrition·Sharon M YoungPierre Lienard
Jun 10, 2003·Developmental Psychobiology·Angel I Melo, Gabriela González-Mariscal
Dec 23, 2006·Developmental Psychobiology·Alison S Fleming
Oct 12, 2013·Developmental Psychobiology·Juan P Perea-Rodriguez, Wendy Saltzman
Aug 25, 2004·Hormones and Behavior·F LévyP Poindron
Aug 11, 2015·Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health·Marisa E Marraccini, Kathleen S Gorman
Jul 20, 2014·Hormones and Behavior·Rebeca Corona, Frédéric Lévy

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