Feeding, which is essential for all animals, is regulated by homeostatic mechanisms. In
addition, food consumption is temporally coordinated by the brain over the circadian (~ 24 h) …

A growing body of evidence suggests that meal timing is an important factor for metabolic
regulation and that the circadian clock tightly interacts with metabolic functions. The proper …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Jay Rosenblatt effectively promoted
research on rabbit maternal behavior through his interaction with colleagues in Mexico …

Mammals exhibit daily anticipatory activity to cycles of food availability. Studies on such food
anticipatory activity (FAA) have been conducted mainly in nocturnal rodents. They have …

The ability to tell time relative to predictable feeding opportunities has a long history of
research, going back more than 100 years with behavioral observations of honeybees and …

Rabbit pups ingest food, in this case milk, once a day with circadian periodicity and are a
natural model of food anticipatory activity. During nursing, several sensory systems receive …

When food is restricted to a brief fixed period every day, animals show an increase in
temperature, corticosterone concentration and locomotor activity for 2–3 h before feeding …

In the newborn rabbit, the light entrainable circadian system is immature and once a day
nursing provides the primary timing cue for entrainment. In advance of the mother's arrival …

Adult rabbits show robust circadian rhythms of: nursing, food and water intake, hard faeces
excretion, locomotion, body temperature, blood and intraocular pressure, corticosteroid …

Rhythmic feeding in rabbit pups is a natural model to study food entrainment because,
similar to rodents under a schedule of food restriction, these animals show food-anticipatory …