Parent-offspring recognition in Brandt’s voles, Lasiopodomys brandti

We investigated social interaction behaviour (amicable versus agonistic) to evaluate parent-offspring recognition in male and female Brandt’s voles. We first examined whether the parents were able to distinguish their own familiar related offspring at the age of weaning from unfamiliar unrelated offspring. Both male and female parents, when encountering unfamiliar unrelated juveniles in a neutral […]