Classifying cattle jaw movements: Comparing IGER Behaviour Recorder and acoustic techniques

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 11-27

  Ungar, Eugene David ^a   Rutter, Steven Mark ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bites; Chew bites; Chews; Grazing; Ingestive behaviour; Methodology

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CATTLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAZING; METHODOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33646136883     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.08.011     Document Type: Article

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