Nursing behaviour and nursing vocalisations in domestic sows: Repeatability and relationship with maternal investment

Behaviour

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1077-1097

  Špinka, Marek ^a   Stěhulová, Ilona ^a   Zachařová, Jana ^b   Maletínská, Jitka ^a   Illmann, Gudrun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Laterality; Maternal behaviour; Maternal investment; Nursing; Pigs; Repeatability; Vocalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036668934     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685390260337912     Document Type: Article

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