Consistency of flight speed and its correlation to productivity and to personality in Bos taurus beef cattle

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 193-204

  Müller, Roger ^a   von Keyserlingk, Marina A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Flight speed; Personality; Productivity; Social separation test

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CATTLE;

ANIMALIA; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33746894768     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.05.012     Document Type: Article

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