A behavioural study of scrapie-affected sheep

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 89-102

  Healy, A M ^a   Hanlon, A J ^a   Weavers, E ^b   Collins, J D ^a   Doherty, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Scrapie; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DISEASE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0037145372     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00122-3     Document Type: Article

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