Sexual behaviour following castration in experienced and inexperienced male rabbits.

Abstract

Sexual behaviour following castration was studied in rabbits with varying precastrational sexual experience. Although most aspects of sexual behaviour declined within a few weeks of castration, experienced animals of mixed strains continued to mount with unreduced frequency for at least 10 weeks following castration. Inexperienced animals, as well as experienced New Zealand White animals, ceased to ejaculate and mount within 4 weeks. The effect of experience on postcastrational sexual behaviour thus seems to vary between different rabbit strains.