Individual and Sex Differences in the Chemical Composition of Pheromone-Like Substances from the Skin Glands of the Rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus

Goodrich, B. S.; Mykytowycz, R.

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“…This notion is supported by physiological, chemical, and behavioral data obtained in many mammalian species (e.g., Albone, 1984;Stoddart, 1973) and in the rabbit in par-ticular. Both sexes emit secretions from specialized skin glands (chin, inguinal, anal) that are chemically differentiable (Goodrich & Mykytowycz, 1972) and that elicit differential responses from rabbit pups (Mykytowycz & Ward, 1971). The size and activity rate of these glands depend on hormonal priming, testosterone increasing, and oestrogens decreasing them (Wales & Ebling, 1971).…”

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“…The size and activity rate of these glands depend on hormonal priming, testosterone increasing, and oestrogens decreasing them (Wales & Ebling, 1971). One possibility, then, is that traces of these secretions are distributed over the body surface during self-grooming and impart to the ventral fur a gender-specific odor to which pups respond differentially on either quantitative (female's odor being weaker than the male's odor), qualitative (Goodrich & Mykytowycz, 1972), or both, grounds.…”

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Attraction of newborn rabbits to abdominal odors of adult conspecifics differing in sex and physiological state

Coureaud

Schaal

2000

Dev. Psychobiol.

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Attraction of newborn rabbits to abdominal odors of adult conspecifics differing in sex and physiological state

Coureaud

Schaal

2000

Dev. Psychobiol.

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“…Secretory activity of odour producing glands varies with age, sex and reproductive condition (GOODRICH & MYKYTOWYCZ, 1972) and is hormonally controlled (EBLING, 1977). As production of the nipple search is correlated with the doe's reproductive status and time of year (HUDSON & DISTEL, in prep.…”

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Nipple Location By Newborn Rabbits: Behavioural Evidence for Pheromonal Guidance

Hudson¹,

Distel²

1983

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“…The olfactory signals that are recognized still remain to be identified. In adult rabbits, excretion and secretion of olfactory substrates depend on specialized glands that are mostly spread over the ventral surface (chin, inguinal and anal areas; Goodrich & Mykytowycz, 1972;Cerbon, Camacho-Arrayo, Gamboa-Dominguez, & Gonzalez-Mariscal, 1996). By recording respiratory responses in juveniles, Mykytowycz and Ward (1971) found that wild rabbits learned the specific odor of their mother's anal and inguinal glands during the first week of life.…”

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Olfactory preference for own mother and litter in 1‐day‐old rabbits and its impairment by thermotaxis

Serra

Nowak

2008

Developmental Psychobiology

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We investigated the ability of rabbit pups to display preferences towards various elements of their postnatal environment during the stage of confinement in the nest. Subjects were submitted to a two-choice test during the first week after birth to assess if they could detect and discriminate between does, litters of pups, or nesting materials of the same developmental stage. On D1 and D7, pups were attracted to any lactating doe, litter, or nest when compared to an empty compartment. When two stimuli were opposed, pups preferred their own nest to an alien one on D1 and D7 but not their mother nor their siblings when opposed to alien does or pups. However, additional tests indicated that this lack of preference for kin conspecifics resulted from a predominant attraction to thermal cues over individual odors. Indeed, pups were strongly attracted to a warm compartment (37 degrees C) than to a cooler one (20 degrees C) and once thermal cues were controlled for in the testing situation, the pups were specifically attracted to odors of their own mother's hair and of their siblings. No preference was observed towards the mother's uterine secretions. In conclusion, pups can recognize olfactory cues emanating from their mother and their siblings the day after birth. The preference for nesting materials would reflect in major part the combined attraction to maternal and sibling odors present in the nest.

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Individual and Sex Differences in the Chemical Composition of Pheromone-Like Substances from the Skin Glands of the Rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus

Cited by 66 publications

References 10 publications

Attraction of newborn rabbits to abdominal odors of adult conspecifics differing in sex and physiological state

Attraction of newborn rabbits to abdominal odors of adult conspecifics differing in sex and physiological state

Nipple Location By Newborn Rabbits: Behavioural Evidence for Pheromonal Guidance

Olfactory preference for own mother and litter in 1‐day‐old rabbits and its impairment by thermotaxis

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