0 to feed a baby, especially a baby animal, with milk from the organ in the mother that produces milk, or (of a baby, especially a baby animal) to drink milk from the mother:
By contrast, it would depress transmission at moderately active inputs such as those that transmit information that is unrelated to suckling.
Preferences for these odors likely develop as a result of the odors being paired with the unconditioned stimuli provided by suckling.
Because of its characteristic of binding to fat, fluazuron is excreted in milk and it is unnecessary to treat suckling calves.
The milk-ejection reflex was then quantitatively measured in the breast opposite the one being suckled.
Seasonal variation in postpartum reproduction as influenced by genotype, suckling and dietary regimen.
It is known that malnutrition has an effect on ovulation and that poor nutrition might augment the effect of suckling in the induction of amenorrhoea.
A sharp decrease in suckling still represents a physiological 'loss' of the baby for her, but supplementary feeding no longer does.
Evidence of learning in the control of suckling behavior is also evident from studies of human infants.