EFFECT OF LEARNING ON SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF GUINEA PIG
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VEER SURENDRA SAI MEDICAL COLLEGE, BURLA. ODISHA, India
Though hormone actions set the stage for sexual activities by generating the ability of animal to become sexually excited or aroused, it is each animal’s experience with sexual behavior and sexual reward that molds the strength of response made towards sexual incentives. The present study was conducted to elucidate that learning from early social experiences may latently shape the sexual motivation as well as copulatory competence in adulthood. Contact with other animals has an organizing action on sexual motivation and psychosocial differentiation. Early isolation soon after birth disrupts the expression of intromission and ejaculation pattern in adult guinea pig. When reared in isolation the guinea pig tends to show motivational deficit and intromission and ejaculation deficit. Again the guinea pig which were deprived of sexual experiences in early stages of their life have a low serum testosterone level as compared to control when kept with estrous female guinea pig giving a clear evidence on experience dependent change in animal sexual behavior and indicates that the effect of social and sexual experiences provide an essential link between steroid mediated events occurring during development, sexual behavior and change in motivational state in adulthood. This article reviews the role of learning in sexual excitement, in behavior that brings about the opportunity to mate, in sexual arousal and copulatory behavior that might otherwise appears to be instinctive.
CONCLUSION: I conclude that experiences play a critical role in organization of sexual motivation and psychosexual differentiation. This concept can be used to solve the behavioral problems of animals in captive breeding. When in captivity, the young animal misses critical learning period and faces difficulties to reproduce further.
Keywords:
Learning,
Motivation,
Sexual Behavior
Conference:
Tenth International Congress of Neuroethology, College Park. Maryland USA, United States, 5 Aug - 10 Aug, 2012.
Presentation Type:
Poster (but consider for participant symposium and student poster award)
Topic:
Learning, Memory and Behavioral Plasticity
Citation:
Joshi
RK
(2012). EFFECT OF LEARNING ON SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF GUINEA PIG.
Conference Abstract:
Tenth International Congress of Neuroethology.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00085
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Received:
13 Apr 2012;
Published Online:
07 Jul 2012.
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Correspondence:
Mr. Rajat K Joshi, VEER SURENDRA SAI MEDICAL COLLEGE, BURLA. ODISHA, Bolangir, Odisha, 767025, India, jrajat_kumar1988@rediffmail.com