Locomotor behaviour in dairy calves, the use of demand functions to assess the effect of deprivation

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 3-14

  Jensen, Margit Bak ^a   Tuomisto, Leena ^b   Pedersen, Lene Juul ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Demand function; Fixed ratio; Locomotor behaviour; Motivation

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; LOCOMOTION;

ARENA;

EID: 1542380920     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2003.11.013     Document Type: Article

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