A note on: On-farm testing of the behavioural response of group-housed calves towards humans; test-retest and inter-observer reliability and effect of familiarity of test person

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 237-243

  Rousing, T ^a   Ibsen, B ^b   Sorensen J T ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Avoidance behaviour; Calves; Human animal relationship

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CATTLE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 26244435629     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.02.011     Document Type: Article

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