Recognition of people by dairy calves using colour of clothing

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 307-319

  Rybarczyk, Pierre ^a,b   Rushen, Jeff ^a   De Passillé, Anne Marie ^a  

^a SHERBROOKE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cattle handling; Colour cues; Discrimination; Human animal relationships; Y maze

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; RECOGNITION; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0037460086     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00273-3     Document Type: Article

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