The synchronization of nursing bouts in group-housed sows

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 191-199

  Wechsler, Beat ^a   Brodmann, Nadja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nursing behaviour; Parental behaviour; Pigs; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

HAEMULIDAE; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 0001357220     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-1591(95)01000-9     Document Type: Article

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