Suckling and allosuckling in river buffalo calves and its relation with weight gain

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-10

  Paranhos Da Costa, Mateus J R ^a   Andriolo, Artur ^b   Simplício De Oliveira, José F ^c   Schmidek, Werner R ^b  

^a Faculdade Cie Agrarias V   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE ZOOTECNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bubalus bubalis; Calf performance; Nursing behaviour; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BIRTH DATE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; UNGULATE; WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; BOVINAE; BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0343550389     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(99)00083-0     Document Type: Article

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