Social models fail to induce diet and feeding site avoidance in naïve yearling steers
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Social models fail to induce diet and feeding site avoidance in naïve yearling steers.
Social learning can be of critical importance to cattle grazing rangeland environments with high variability of food resources across space and time. Experienced individuals can greatly facilitate foraging decisions (what to eat and where to eat) of naïve peers in such settings. We conducted an experiment with cattle to investigate strength and persistence of socially induced food and feeding s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Animal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1751-7311
DOI: 10.1017/s1751731107001437