Behavioural reactivity of heifer calves in potentially alarming test situations: A multivariate and correlational analysis

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 11-30

  Van Reenen, C G ^a   Engel, B ^a   Ruis Heutinck, L F M ^a   Van Der Werf, J T N ^a   Buist, W G ^a   Jones, R B ^b   Blokhuis, H J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calf; Coping; Fear; Individual differences; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; COPING STRATEGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BOVINAE;

EID: 0346401648     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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