Dairy calves social preferences and the significance of a companion animal during separation from the group

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 205-221

  Færevik, Gry ^a   Jensen, Margit Bak ^b   Bøe, Knut Egil ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Calves; Group housing; Separation; Social preferences

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33747044408     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.10.012     Document Type: Article

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