Play Behavior: Persistence, Decrease, and Energetic Compensation During Food Shortage in Deer Fawns
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 215 (4528) , 85-87
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.215.4528.85
Abstract
White-tailed deer fawns continued to play despite an experimentally induced 33 percent milk shortage. They reduced play by 35 percent and general activity by 9 percent but increased grazing by 62 percent, resulting in virtually complete energetic compensation. This demonstrates the importance of play behavior in a mammal's activity budget.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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