Social preferences in farmed silver fox females (Vulpes vulpes): Does it change with age?

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 120, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 186-191

  Akre, Anne Kathrine ^a   Bakken, Morten ^a   Hovland, Anne Lene ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Familiarity; Silver fox; Social preferences; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; AGGRESSION; CANID; CONSPECIFIC; FAMILIARITY; JUVENILE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 69249219127     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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