Mother-infant relations in captive woodchucks (Marmota monax) [Relations mère-jeunes chez les marmottes des bois captives].

Résumé

Mother-infant relations in three litters of captive woodchucks were studied from birth until about one week after dispersal normally occurs in nature. Weaning correlated with dispersal age and with an increase in aggressive mother-infant relations and a decrease in solicitious behaviour.