Communal suckling in water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)

dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.creatorMurphey, Robert M.
dc.creatorParanhos da Costa, Mateus J.R.
dc.creatorde Souza Lima, Ligia O.
dc.creatorde Moura Duarte, Francisco A.
dc.date2014-05-27T11:17:24Z
dc.date2016-10-25T21:21:30Z
dc.date2014-05-27T11:17:24Z
dc.date2016-10-25T21:21:30Z
dc.date1991-01-01
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-06T09:23:08Z
dc.date.available2017-04-06T09:23:08Z
dc.identifierApplied Animal Behaviour Science, v. 28, n. 4, p. 341-352, 1991.
dc.identifier0168-1591
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/130575
dc.identifierhttp://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/11449/130575
dc.identifier10.1016/0168-1591(91)90166-U
dc.identifierWOS:A1991EZ62600005
dc.identifier2-s2.0-0026054342
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591(91)90166-U
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/941118
dc.descriptionCommunal nursing (an adult female allowing the offspring of another conspecific female to suckle) is a relatively frequent behavior in water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Fourteen lactating water buffalo cows and their nursing calves were observed at a Brazilian dairy after the cows had been milked. The two variables of greatest interest were solicitations of their own mothers and other cows by the calves, and acceptances of their own offspring and non-filial calves by the cows. Correlational analyses suggested three easily discriminable clusters of variables. Calves solicited and succeeded in suckling from their own mothers more often than they did from any other individual cow, but they solicited all other cows slightly more often than they did their own mothers. They were more likely to try to suckle other cows if they were rejected by their own mothers. Cows that had a high probability of accepting their own offspring tended to accept non-filial calves as well. Calves tended to maximize the total number rather than the probability of successful solicitations. Communal suckling was not reciprocal. Communal and filial suckling results from encounters between cows and calves performing under different motivational states. © 1991.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.
dc.relationApplied Animal Behaviour Science
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectsuckling
dc.subjectwater buffalo
dc.subjectBubalus
dc.subjectBubalus bubalis
dc.titleCommunal suckling in water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
dc.typeOtro


Este ítem pertenece a la siguiente institución