Feeding and mastication behaviour in ruminants

Feeding in Domestic Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 241-262

  Baumont, R ^a   Doreau, M ^a   Ingrand, S ^b   Veissier, I ^a  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

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