The imprints created by cattle Grazing short sequences of bites on continuous alfalfa swards

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-12

  Ungar, E D ^a   Griffiths, W M ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Bite dimensions; Cattle; Grazing behaviour

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; GRAZING; IMPRINTING;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 0037052840     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00021-7     Document Type: Article

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