Social discrimination in lambs: Persistence and scope

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 239-248

  Ligout, Séverine ^a   Porter, Richard H ^a   Bon, Richard ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Lambs; Persistence of recognition; Social cognition; Social discrimination

Indexed keywords

RECOGNITION; SHEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; LAMB; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0037177214     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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