Individual variation in the heart rate of piglets; Evidence against stable differences

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 269-278

  Webster, Stephen D ^a,b   Jones, Alick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart rate; Individual variation; Pig physiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031888947     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(97)00052-X     Document Type: Article

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