The first sucking bouts have strong rewarding properties in the establishment of a
preference for the mother by newborn lambs. In this study we designed an artificial teat …

Lambs develop a preferential relationship with their mothers within 24 h after birth. In a first
experiment, we attempted to determine whether neonatal sucking was a potent reinforcer in …

The establishment of filial bonding in sheep relies on the success of the first suckling bouts.
Previous work has shown that colostrum ingestion facilitates the development of a …

Publisher Summary The aim of this chapter is to show how repeated sensory information
provided by the mother concomitantly with the occurrence of suckling gains signal value for …

The present study investigated the rewarding effects of nonnutritive sucking on the
development of a filial preference. Two experiments were conducted to test whether …

To examine the motivation of non-nutritive sucking by calves, a series of tests was
conducted on calves that were fed milk replacer by bucket and allowed to suck on a dry …

In artificial rearing, calves are often fed via an automatic milk feeder and have no opportunity
to perform natural sucking behaviour. The majority of these calves show abnormal oral …

The regulation of parental supply and offspring demand was modelled for altricial birds. The
situation might differ for precocial species, where offspring can also feed themselves. We …

While allonursing, the provision of milk to non-offspring by females, involves a potential cost
to their own offspring, allosuckling, the suckling from females other than their own mother …

In traditional housing systems for dairy herds, calves are very often placed in single boxes
and fed milk from a bucket, which may lead to abnormal behaviour. In organic herds, for …