Bite dimensions and grazing movements by sheep and cattle grazing homogeneous perennial ryegrass swards

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Applied Animal Behaviour Science

• Publication date

  2004-10-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Biology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.APPLANIM.2004.03.006
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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