The feeding behaviour of the water buffalo monitored by a semiautomatic feed intake recording system

Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-72

  Barrio, J P ^a   Zhang, S Y ^b   Zhu, Z K ^b   Wu, F L ^b   Mao, X Z ^b   Bermudez F F ^c   Forbes, J M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Feeding behaviour; Water buffalo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034554510     PISSN: 12301388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22358/jafs/68029/2000     Document Type: Article

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