Food sensory characteristics: their unconsidered roles in the feeding behaviour of domestic ruminants

When domestic ruminants are faced with food diversity, they can use pre-ingestive information (i.e. food sensory characteristics perceived by the animal before swallowing the food) and post-ingestive information (i.e. digestive and metabolic consequences, experienced by the animal after swallowing t...

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Main Authors: A. Favreau-Peigné, R. Baumont, C. Ginane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731112002145