Using contact logging devices to explore animal affiliations: Quantifying cow-calf interactions

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Swain, David Lloyd ^a   Bishop Hurley, Gregory John ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Behaviour; Contact logger; Maternal; Parentage

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; CATTLE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33845220998     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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