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The behavioural effects of undernutrition in confined farm animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Alistair B. Lawrence
Affiliation:
Genetics and Behavioural Sciences Department, The Scottish Agricultural College Edinburgh, West Mains Road, EdinburghEH26 0QE
E. M. Claudia Terlouw
Affiliation:
Genetics and Behavioural Sciences Department, The Scottish Agricultural College Edinburgh, West Mains Road, EdinburghEH26 0QE
Ilias Kyriazakis
Affiliation:
Genetics and Behavioural Sciences Department, The Scottish Agricultural College Edinburgh, West Mains Road, EdinburghEH26 0QE
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Symposium on ‘Behavioural consequences of undernutrition’
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1993

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