Social Licking in Pregnant Dairy Heifers
Published: September 28, 2017
Summary
1. Introduction Social licking is defined as the act of one individual licking the body of another [1]. This behavior is routinely observed at birth when the dam licks her offspring [2], at courtship when the male licks a female in estrus [3], but it also occurs in other contexts between animals of the same sex and age [4] A variety of functions for this behavior have been proposed. For ...
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28 de septiembre de 2017
Thanks for your nice work. How licking is related to good condition?
6 de octubre de 2017
Really it is an interesting study but could not understand its impact on animals performance, I had observed its bad impact on buffalo calves 3 to 4 months old who died due to excessive accumulation of body hairs swallowed to study through licking each other in a paddock. I would like to know if the author has found any digestion problems in the instant study, please.
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