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ANIMAL-DETECTEUR [1 record]

Record 1 2010-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Science
  • Animal Reproduction
DEF

An animal used to sexually tease but not to impregnate the members of the opposite sex; usually males, sometimes androgenized females.

OBS

An animal wearing a chin-ball or siresine harness so that females mounted are marked by crayon or paint (based on BLOVE, 1988, p. 558).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zootechnie
  • Reproduction des animaux
OBS

Peut être un taureau, un étalon, un bélier, par exemple

OBS

Il s'agit d'un animal «mis dans l'impossibilité de saillir (vasectomisé ou à verge amputée ou déviée) [...] On matérialise les tentatives d'accouplement par des marqueurs colorés». (VIVET, 1984, p. 129).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Zootecnia
  • Reproducción de animales
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