Risky behaviour by piglets: A trade off between feeding and risk of mortality by maternal crushing?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 619-624

  Weary, Daniel M ^a   Pajor, Edmond A ^a   Thompson, Brian K ^a   Fraser, David ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERBILLURUS TYTONIS; SUS SCROFA;

FEEDING; MORTALITY RISK; MOTHER-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PIGLET; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 0029666971     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0066     Document Type: Article

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