Feeding behaviour in rabbits

Feeding in Domestic Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 179-194

  Gidenne, T ^a   Lebas, F ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Cuniculture ^*  (France)

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