Early handling increases lamb affinity for humans

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 573-587

  Markowitz, Tim M ^a,b   Dally, Martin R ^a,c   Gursky, Karin ^a,d   Price, Edward O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of California (retired)   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0031921891     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0640     Document Type: Article

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