Abstract:Parenting is an ethologically relevant social behavior consisting of stereotypic components involving the care and nourishment of young. First-time rodent dams seek and gather wandering/scattered pups back to the nest (pup retrieval), an essential aspect of maternal care. Over the decades, qualitative observations of the behaving animal have been presented in quantitative discrete units. However, systematic analysis of the dynamic sequences of goal-related movements that comprise the entire behavioral sequence… Show more
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