Communal suckling in water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
dc.contributor.author | Murphey, Robert M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Paranhos da Costa, Mateus J.R. [UNESP] | |
dc.contributor.author | de Souza Lima, Ligia O. [UNESP] | |
dc.contributor.author | de Moura Duarte, Francisco A. | |
dc.contributor.institution | University of California | |
dc.contributor.institution | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) | |
dc.contributor.institution | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-27T11:17:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-05-27T11:17:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1991-01-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | Communal 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. | en |
dc.description.affiliation | Department of Psychology University of California, Davis, CA 95616 | |
dc.description.affiliation | Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias Universidade Estadual Paulista, 14870 Jaboticabal, São Paulo | |
dc.description.affiliation | Departamento de Genética Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de São Paulo, 14049 Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo | |
dc.description.affiliationUnesp | Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias Universidade Estadual Paulista, 14870 Jaboticabal, São Paulo | |
dc.format.extent | 341-352 | |
dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591(91)90166-U | |
dc.identifier.citation | Applied Animal Behaviour Science, v. 28, n. 4, p. 341-352, 1991. | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/0168-1591(91)90166-U | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0168-1591 | |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-0026054342 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11449/130575 | |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:A1991EZ62600005 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier B.V. | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Applied Animal Behaviour Science | |
dc.relation.ispartofjcr | 1.548 | |
dc.relation.ispartofsjr | 0,908 | |
dc.rights.accessRights | Acesso restrito | |
dc.source | Scopus | |
dc.subject | suckling | |
dc.subject | water buffalo | |
dc.subject | Bubalus | |
dc.subject | Bubalus bubalis | |
dc.title | Communal suckling in water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) | en |
dc.type | Artigo | |
dcterms.license | http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-policies/article-posting-policy | |
dcterms.rightsHolder | Elsevier B.V. |