Maintenance behavior of cattle in a young tree plantation in southern Kyushu, Japan - Hirata, Masahiko; Hasegawa, Nobumi; Nogami, Kangoro; Sonoda, Tatsunobu (Journal of Ethology, 2009)
Keywords: air temperature; Animal Ecology; Animal ethology; animal performance; beef cattle; Behavioral Sciences; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; body weight; Chamaecyparis obtusa; conifers; Evolutionary Biology; foraging; Forestry; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General forest ecology; Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology; grasslands; grazing; herds; Japan; Life Sciences; plantations; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; rumination; Wagyu; Zoology; Asia; Kyushu; Japan; Forest grazing; Maintenance behavior; Japanese Black cattle; Synchronization; Social facilitation; Forests; Bovine; Japanese; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Social interaction; Tree; Artiodactyla; Behavior; Ungulata; Maintenance behaviors