Short CommunicationAn attempt to bond weaned 3-month-old beef heifers to yearling ewes*
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2015, Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceCitation Excerpt :By mixing species varying in fear behaviour, some may benefit from the protection of others that can be aggressive towards predators. Such characteristic has been used to protect vulnerable small ruminants by inducing mixed bonds between herds of cattle and flocks of sheep in order to reduce attacks on the latter by coyotes in North America (Anderson et al., 1992; Hulet et al., 1987), or by raising dogs with sheep to guard them against wolves in Europe (Rigg, 2001). In the web of induced interspecific relationships, the most common and probably best known association is the one that involves animals and humans: it can be intense, vital and lifelong in some species (pets) or casual and temporary in others (farm species).
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Cooperative investigations of the Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station. Journal Article 1627, Agricultural Experiment Station, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA.