Nutrition and Behaviour Group Symposium on 'Exploitation of medicinal properties of plants by animals and man through food intake and foraging behaviour': Can animals use foraging behaviour to combat parasites?

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 361-370

  Hutchings, Michael R ^a   Athanasiadou, Spiridoula ^a   Kyriazakis, Ilias ^a   Gordon, Iain J ^b  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acquired immunity; Grazing behaviour; Parasite control; Parasite distribution; Self medication

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITISM; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT NUTRIENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMISTRY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 1542541528     PISSN: 00296651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PNS2003243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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