Cows are highly motivated to access a grooming substrate

In natural environments, cattle use trees and other abrasive surfaces to scratch and groom themselves. Modern indoor dairy cattle housing systems often lack appropriate grooming substrates, restricting the animals' ability to groom. We assessed the motivation of dairy cows to access an automate...

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Published in:Biol Lett
Main Authors: McConnachie, Emilie, Smid, Anne Marieke C., Thompson, Alexander J., Weary, Daniel M., Gaworski, Marek A., von Keyserlingk, Marina A. G.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2018
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Animal Behaviour
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127119/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30089661
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0303
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