Behavioural responses of farm mink towards familiar and novel food

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 123-130

  Malmkvist, J ^a   Herskin, M S ^a   Christensen, J W ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fear; Feeding strategy; Mustela vison; Neophobia; Novelty

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIVESTOCK; MUSTELID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MINK; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; SNIFFING; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 0037474557     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(02)00167-5     Document Type: Article

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