Some aspects of milk that elicit non-nutritive sucking in the calf

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 167-173

  De Passillé, Anne Marie ^a   Rushen, Jeffrey ^a   Janzen, Martine ^a,b  

^a SHERBROOKE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abnormal behaviour; Calves; Milk; Motivation; Sucking; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031006131     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(96)01161-6     Document Type: Article

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