Time-dependent transition probabilities and the assessment of seasonal effects on within-day variations in chewing behaviour of housed sheep

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-37

  Dutilleul, P ^a   Deswysen, A G ^b   Fischer, V ^c   Maene, D ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chewing behaviour; Sheep; Temporal variations; Transitions

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0034607830     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(99)00128-8     Document Type: Article

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