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Science 7 January 1983:
Vol. 219. no. 4580, pp. 81 - 83
DOI: 10.1126/science.6849123
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Science, Vol 219, Issue 4580, 81-83
Copyright © 1983 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Vaginal stimulation: an important determinant of maternal bonding in sheep

EB Keverne, F Levy, P Poindron, and DR Lindsay

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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