This observation as to the dependence of milk content upon food has been confirmed in the case of nursing mothers and suggests the need of especial attention to the diet of the mother during the lactating period.
There are many "old wives" prejudices in regard to what food a lactating mother may eat and unfortunately many of these prejudices are extremely injurious and false.
May 31 was lactatingand had four placental scars, whereas another that weighed 67.
Each of two lactating females taken in late May had six placental scars.
A lactating female was taken on August 3, but three other adult females taken early in the same month evidenced no reproductive activity.
Additionally, we took lactating females on July 6, July 7, and August 7, and two individuals with recent placental scars on August 5.
A lactating female taken on August 7 was in summer pelage excepting that what definitely appeared to be new winter pelage was present on the head, cheeks, and below the ears, and molt was evident adjacent to these areas.
Of seven specimens taken between May 15 and 24, two (one male and one lactating female) were in an early stage of molt, whereas the remainder were in winter pelage.
A lactating female with five placental scars was obtained on May 24, but eight adult females taken after June 23 previously had weaned young.
The holotype, an adult female, was lactating when obtained in October.
More recently Huët[115] tested the effects of Theinhardt’s Hygiama lactogene on four lactating women.
I tried, therefore, to estimate the number of juveniles on the study plot each month by multiplying the number of lactating females by the mean litter size.
A lactating female would sometimes enter a trap even after it had been sprung by a juvenile, presumably her offspring, or a juvenal vole would enter a trap after its mother had been captured.
Sierra de Tamaulipas, June 13, five lactating females and one female taken alive that gave birth on June 16 to one young; Cueva La Mula, August, ninelactating females.
Both are females, one of which waslactating (June 20).
A lactatingfemale was taken on August 2 in the Sierra Madre Oriental.
Some dates concerning reproduction of Liomys irroratus in Tamaulipas are as follows: La Pesca, May 25, one female lactating and one female pregnant with 4 embryos that measured 8 mm.
Lactating females (22 specimens) were collected in June and July.
The two specimens examined were collected in July, one in tropical forest and the other in pine-oak forest; each was a lactating female and each weighed 5 grams.
Two females taken there on November 11 carried one embryo each; a lactating female was taken on November 14.
In the Sierra de Tamaulipas a lactating female was taken (June 9) in a steel trap.
I infer that at least some lactating females of P.
If such a hypothetical drought occurred, lactating females of P.
This pregnant and lactating female ran into a hollow branch of a partly-dead juniper tree 10 feet south of station O7d.
No pregnant orlactating females were observed in November.
Any unfavorable circumstances, such as a shortage of food or water, that would affect pregnant or lactating females would be of primary importance to the integrity of the population.
Some adult females appeared to be pregnant or lactatingthroughout much of the summer and early autumn, whereas other females, that were caught a number of times, apparently reproduced only once in the summer.
Drought could reduce the water content of the vegetation to such a level that pregnant or lactating females might find it difficult, if not impossible, to raise litters successfully.
Pregnant and lactating females, and newly-weaned litters, were fed laboratory chow throughout this experiment.
Since lactating females require the most water of any animal in the population, they are the weakest link in the system.
Most pregnant or lactating females, of both species, tended to use smaller areas for their daily activities than did non-pregnant or non-lactating females.
The young of pregnant and lactating females are the animals in the population most likely to be affected by a deficient supply of water.
C used much more than the average amount of water for the species, and even more per gram of body weight than lactating females of P.
Although the data in Table 11 do not cover the full developmental time of the litters involved, it is obvious that bothlactating females of P.
There were notable exceptions to this generality, for some lactating females had exceptionally large home ranges.
Lactating females were captured in June, July, and August.
A group taken from another house at El Recreo (from cracks in the stone wall and from between rafters and the corrugated metal roof) in late July 1966 consisted of adult males, lactating females, and young.
On several occasions, young were successfully transferred from the mother to another lactating female in confinement, which accepted them as part of her own litter.
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