Allogrooming in cattle: Relationships between social preferences, feeding displacements and social dominance

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 116, Issue 2-4, 2009, Pages 141-149

  Val Laillet, David ^a   Guesdon, Vanessa ^a   von Keyserlingk, Marina A G ^b   de Passillé, Anne Marie ^a   Rushen, Jeffrey ^a  

^a SUMMERLAND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allogrooming; Bonding; Cattle; Dominance; Feeding competition; Social preferences

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING; GROOMING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; LACTATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 57749105348     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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