Foraging behaviour of donkeys grazing in a coastal dune area in temperate climate conditions

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 93-112

  Lamoot, Indra ^a,b   Callebaut, Julie ^a   Demeulenaere, Else ^a   Vandenberghe, Charlotte ^a   Hoffmann, Maurice ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diet composition; Donkey; Equid; Grazing behaviour; Habitat use

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 19544391441     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2004.10.017     Document Type: Article

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