Affiliative behaviour of related and unrelated pairs of cats in catteries: a preliminary report

Social ties between free-ranging cats are largely confined to related females, yet multicat households often contain unrelated cats. We have investigated whether unrelated pairs of cats from the same household are less affiliative towards one another than pairs of littermates, by observing their beh...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Applied animal behaviour science 1999-04, Vol.63 (3), p.251-255
Hauptverfasser:	Bradshaw, John W.S, Hall, Suzanne L
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Cat cats grooming Kinship orientation Social behaviour Socialisation socialization Spacing behaviour
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