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Vaginal Stimulation: An Important Determinant of Maternal Bonding in Sheep

Eric B. Keverne · Frédéric Lévy · Pascal Poindron · D. R. Lindsay

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Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior Animal Behavior and Reproduction Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Abstract

The immediate induction of the full complement of maternal behavior in nonpregnant ewes primed with estrogen and progesterone has been obtained after 5 minutes of vaginal-cervical stimulation. A similar period of such stimulation given to recently parturient ewes, after the development of selective bonding to their own lambs, reversed their rejection behavior of alien lambs and produced a state of plasticity in maternal behavior, such that ewes receiving vaginal stimulation would accept and adopt alien lambs. These findings implicate vaginal-cervical stimulation as playing a role in the onset of maternal behavior.

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