Social distances of goats at the feeding rack: Influence of the quality of social bonds, rank differences, grouping age and presence of horns

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 116-131

  Aschwanden, Janine ^a   Gygax, Lorenz ^a   Wechsler, Beat ^a   Keil, Nina M ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Goat; Horns; Individual distance; Loose housing; Social bond

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GOAT; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HORN; MILK PRODUCTION; ONTOGENY; RANKING; SOCIAL CONFLICT;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 51649107586     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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