"Adult female rats who have never before encountered rat pups will start to show maternal behaviors after being confined with a pup for about seven days. This period can be considerably shortened by disabling the female's sense of smell or by removing the scent-producing glands of the pup."
Safe to Infer - SMELL is the connecting link between female rats and pups. And with this sense of small, it takes 7 days for female rat to develop a maternal interest in pup.
Hence, if this SMELL factor be removed, she could develop maternal interest earlier.
E.) The development of a female rat's maternal interest in a rat pup that she did not bear is inhibited by the odor of the pup.
This helps in justifying contrast as if there was no odor of pup - her maternal interest would've ignited earlier than 7 days.
Hope this helps!
Safe to Infer - SMELL is the connecting link between female rats and pups. And with this sense of small, it takes 7 days for female rat to develop a maternal interest in pup.
Hence, if this SMELL factor be removed, she could develop maternal interest earlier.
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E.) The development of a female rat's maternal interest in a rat pup that she did not bear is inhibited by the odor of the pup.
This helps in justifying contrast as if there was no odor of pup - her maternal interest would've ignited earlier than 7 days.
Hope this helps!
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