@article {51722,
	title = {Bonding of goats to sheep and cattle for protection from predators},
	journal = {Applied Animal Behavior Science},
	volume = {22},
	year = {1988},
	note = {Reprinted with permission from Elsevier, Copyright {\textcopyright} 1988. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01681591)},
	month = {1988},
	pages = {261-267},
	abstract = {<p>Fourteen 5-month-old mohair goats previously confined with heifers for 60 days were randomized into two groups. Group 1 was confined with two heifers for an additional 14 days. Group 2 was confined with eight previously cattle-bonded sheep and a heifer for 14 days. A third group of six non-bonded sheep and seven goats, and three heifers with calves served as a control. The three groups were randomized among three brushy range pastures averaging 190 ha and rotated whenever a goat or sheep was found dead or missing. Control goats, control lambs and Group 1 goats were observed to move independently of the cattle. Group 2 goats consistently stayed with the bonded sheep and cattle. Sheep and goats which did not stay with cattle were killed by predators starting 5 days after going to pasture. Within 10 days all goats, one lamb from the control group and six of the seven goats from Group 1 were dead, wounded or missing. Only the smallest goat in Group 2 was lost. This group was rotated among the three pastures for an additional 21 days with no further loss.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1016/0168-1591(89)90021-X},
	url = {/files/bibliography/330.pdf},
	author = {Clarence V. Hulet and D.M. Anderson and J. N. Smith and Shupe, W. Larry and D.A. Taylor Jr. and L. W. Murray}
}
