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Article: Application of the knowledge about animal behavior in animal production/Aplicacion del conocimiento de la conducta animal en la produccion pecuaria/Aplicacao do conhecimento da conduta animal na producao pecuaria.
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- Interciencia
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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SUMMARY
Ethology is the science which studies animal behavior. It is as old as man, although it has only been in recent years that its importance has been recognized, when Lorenz, Tinbergen and von Frish were awarded the Nobel Prize of medicine and physiology in 1973. The importance of the knowledge about animal behav ior to improve animal production when it is applied to nutrition programs, reproduction, animal housing design, animal handling, transport and slaughter, has been demonstrated in several studies with domestic animals, which are reviewed in the present article.
RESUMEN
La etologia, ciencia que estudia el comportamiento animal, es ...