Approachability and contact behavior of commercial dairy calves to humans

Animal Science Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-78

  Uetake, Katsuji ^a   Morita, Shigeru ^b   Kobayashi, Yoshiko ^b   Hoshiba, Shinji ^b   Tanaka, Toshio ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Approachability; Attachment; Behavior; Dairy calf

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0041786618     PISSN: 13443941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1344-3941.2003.00089.x     Document Type: Article

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