Social discrimination in lambs: The role of indirect familiarization and methods of assessment

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1109-1115

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FAMILIARITY; RECOGNITION; SHEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0041409768     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2139     Document Type: Article

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