Individual recognition in domestic cattle (Bos taurus): Evidence from 2D-images of heads from different breeds

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Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Coulon, Marjorie ^a   Deputte, Bertrand L ^a,b   Heyman, Yvan ^c   Baudoin, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DAIRY CATTLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HEAD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIM HOLSTEIN COW; SPECIES COMPARISON; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84887212365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004441     Document Type: Article

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