The gradual vocal responses to human-provoked discomfort in farmed silver foxes

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-85

  Gogoleva, Svetlana S ^a   Volodina, Elena V ^b   Volodin, Ilya A ^a,b   Kharlamova, Anastasia V ^c   Trut, Lyudmila N ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Scientific Research Department   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Fur farm animals; Human animal interaction; Vocalization; Vulpes vulpes; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 77958061990     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-010-0076-3     Document Type: Article

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