Cattle discriminate between individual familiar herd members in a learning experiment

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-28

  Hagen, Kristin ^a,b   Broom, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cattle; Discrimination learning; Expressive behaviour; Memory; Social recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; CATTLE; LEARNING; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0037417469     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(03)00053-4     Document Type: Article

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