Effects of social facilitation for locating feeding sites by cattle in an eight-arm radial maze

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 93-105

  Bailey, Derek W ^a   Howery, Larry D ^b   Boss, Darrin L ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cattle; Foraging; Social facilitation; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034630870     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(00)00091-5     Document Type: Article

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