Sucking and allosucking duration in farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus)

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 113, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 215-223

  Drábková, Jorga ^a,b   Bartošová, Jitka ^a   Bartoš, Luděk ^a   Kotrba, Radim ^a   Pluháček, Jan ^a   Švecová, Ludmila ^a   Dušek, Adam ^a   Kott, Tomáš ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allosucking; Cervus elaphus; Red deer; Sucking behaviour; Sucking duration

Indexed keywords

DEER; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MATERNAL CARE; SUCKLING;

CERVUS ELAPHUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 46849094951     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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