Discriminative responsiveness by lambs to visual images of conspecifics

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 101-110

  Porter, R H ^a   Bouissou, M F ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Conspecific discrimination; Lambs; Social recognition; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LAMB; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; RETINA IMAGE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0032748757     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00075-3     Document Type: Article

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