A brief report on intra-species aggressive biting in a goat herd
| dc.authorid | Savaş, Türker/0000-0002-3558-2296 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tölü, Cemil | |
| dc.contributor.author | Savaş, Türker | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-27T20:26:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-27T20:26:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.department | Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study aimed at analysing the effects of age, horn and places on biting and butting as intraspecies aggressive activities. Seventy-two Turkish Saanen goats were used as animal material and 22,686 aggressive behaviours were recorded in different places from a total of 118 h direct observation. Of the observations of aggressive behaviours, 32.7% was biting behaviour and the rest was butting behaviour. The frequency of biting behaviour in 3 or more years old goats was significantly higher than that of biting behaviour in 1 and 2 years old animals (P < 0.01). The observations revealed that horned or hornless goats exhibited biting behaviour; however the frequency of biting behaviour in hornless goats was 2.38 times higher than in homed goats (P < 0.01). Biting and butting behaviours were found to be well correlated with the area of places (P < 0.01). As the area of places got narrowed, the frequency of biting increased. However, such a trend was not observed in butting behaviour. The frequency of butting behaviour again increased with the increase in social hierarchy (P < 0.01), whereas the frequency of biting behaviour was not affected by social hierarchy (P = 0.30). In conclusion, intra-species biting behaviour, which is thought to have developed as a result of hom absence, should be questioned whether this is unique to the herd or to the genotype. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.03.002 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 129 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0168-1591 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 1-2 | |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-33845211959 | |
| dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q1 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 124 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2006.03.002 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/22474 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 102 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000243614300011 | |
| dc.identifier.wosquality | Q1 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier Science Bv | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Applied Animal Behaviour Science | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | |
| dc.snmz | KA_WoS_20250125 | |
| dc.subject | Turkish Saanen | |
| dc.subject | butting | |
| dc.subject | aggressive biting | |
| dc.subject | places | |
| dc.subject | horn | |
| dc.title | A brief report on intra-species aggressive biting in a goat herd | |
| dc.type | Article |
