Young female pigs can discriminate individual differences in odours from conspecific urine

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 97-101

  Mendl, Michael ^a   Randle, Kate ^a   Pope, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ODOR; PIG; URINE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0036378955     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3040     Document Type: Article

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