Associative learning by cattle to enable effective and ethical virtual fences

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 15-22

  Lee, Caroline ^a   Henshall, John M ^a   Wark, Tim J ^a   Crossman, Chris C ^a   Reed, Matt T ^a   Brewer, Heather G ^a   O'Grady, Julian ^a   Fisher, Andrew D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Audio cue; Cattle; Conditioned stimulus; Electric shock; Virtual fencing

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CATTLE; GPS; LEARNING; TROUGH;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 67349143115     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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