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Animal Behaviour

Volume 15, Issues 2–3, April–July 1967, Pages 267-269
Animal Behaviour

Intercorrelations of maternal activities in the rat

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Abstract

Intercorrelations of scores obtained during retrieving and nesting tests given to primiparous dams indicates that pup retrieving and care of retrieved pups in the nest site are relatively independent of one another and of nesting activities. These data suggest that the term maternal behaviour does not represent a unitary behavioural process and that use of one or two measures of maternal activity are insufficient for assessing the effects of experimental manipulations on the maternal behaviour in the rat.

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This study was supported by Research Grant M-1370 from the National Institutes of Mental Health and was conducted in the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois.

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