Graded leadership by dominant animals in a herd of female beef cattle on pasture

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1037-1045

  Šárová, Radka ^a,b   Špinka, Marek ^a   Panamá, José L Arias ^a   Šimeček, Petr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bos taurus; cattle; dominance; foraging; GPS; group movement; leadership

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; PASTURE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 77950866835     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.019     Document Type: Article

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