Calves' motivation for access to two different types of social contact measured by operant conditioning

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 175-194

  Holm, Louise ^a   Jensen, Margit Bak ^a   Jeppesen, Leif Lau ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behavioural needs; Calves; Demand functions; Motivation; Operant conditioning; Social contact

Indexed keywords

LIVESTOCK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036837822     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00137-5     Document Type: Article

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