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Activity monitoring reveals natural behaviors of free-ranging dairy cows and finds penned cattle take half as many daily steps

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Dairy cows on alpine pasture

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Credit: Maher Alsaaod, Clinic for Ruminants, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Activity monitoring reveals natural behaviors of free-ranging dairy cows and finds penned cattle take half as many daily steps

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0264320  

Article Title: Locomotion behavior of dairy cows on traditional summer mountain farms in comparison with modern cubicle housing without access to pasture

Author Countries: Switzerland, Germany

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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