Mother-lamb acoustic recognition in sheep: a frequency coding
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Mother-lamb acoustic recognition in sheep: a frequency coding.
Ewes of the domestic sheep ( Ovis aries ) display selective maternal investment by restricting care to their own offspring and rejecting alien young. This trait relies on individual recognition processes between ewes and lambs. Whereas identification at the udder is only olfactory, distance recognition is performed through visual and acoustic cues. We studied the effectiveness and modalities of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2442