Veterinary and pharmacological approaches to abnormal repetitive behaviour

Stereotypic Animal Behaviour: Fundamentals and Applications to Welfare: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 286-324

  Mills, D ^a   Luescher, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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