Cattle use visual cues to track food locations

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-14

  Howery, Larry D ^a   Bailey, Derek W ^c   Ruyle, George B ^c   Renken, Wilma J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Animal distribution; Diet selection; Foraging behaviour; Learning; Spatial; Temporal

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 0034701301     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(99)00118-5     Document Type: Article

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