Adult-weanling recognition among captive meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus)

Authors

M. H. Ferkin, University of California, BerkeleyFollow

Abstract

Encounters between weanlings and the adult(s) with which they were reared contained few agonistic behaviours. Encounters between weanlings and an unfamiliar adult, independently of genetic relatedness, contained many agonistic acts. Encounters involving female weanlings were less agonistic than those involving males. Adult agonism toward weanlings may be a behavioural mechanism regulating sex-biased dispersal patterns. -from Author

Publication Title

Behaviour

Recommended Citation

Ferkin, M. (1989). Adult-weanling recognition among captive meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus). Behaviour, 108 (1-2), 114-124. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853989X00088