Hormonal control of grooming behavior in domestic goats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-66

  Kakuma, Yoshie ^a   Takeuchi, Yukari ^a   Mori, Yuji ^a   Hart, Benjamin L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Goats; Grooming behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GOAT; GROOMING; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037243382     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(02)00942-3     Document Type: Article

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