Wether ewe know me or not: The discrimination of individual humans by sheep

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-32

  Davis, Hank ^a   Norris, Christina ^a   Taylor, Allison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Human recognition; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0032054608     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00082-X     Document Type: Article

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