Camel Calves as Opportunistic Milk Thefts? The First Description of Allosuckling in Domestic Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus)

Karolína Brandlová; Luděk Bartoš; Tamara Haberová

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053052

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Camel Calves as Opportunistic Milk Thefts? The First Description of Allosuckling in Domestic Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus)

Karolína Brandlová ,

* E-mail: brandlova@its.czu.cz

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Food Processing in Tropics and Subtropics, Institute of Tropics and Subtropics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
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Luděk Bartoš,

Affiliations Department of Ethology, Institute of Animal Science, Praha Uhříněves, Czech Republic, Department of Animal Science and Ethology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food, and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
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Tamara Haberová

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Food Processing in Tropics and Subtropics, Institute of Tropics and Subtropics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
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Camel Calves as Opportunistic Milk Thefts? The First Description of Allosuckling in Domestic Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus)

Karolína Brandlová,
Luděk Bartoš,
Tamara Haberová

Published: January 9, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053052

About the Authors

Karolína Brandlová

* E-mail: brandlova@its.czu.cz

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Food Processing in Tropics and Subtropics, Institute of Tropics and Subtropics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, Czech Republic

Luděk Bartoš

Affiliations Department of Ethology, Institute of Animal Science, Praha Uhříněves, Czech Republic, Department of Animal Science and Ethology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food, and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, Czech Republic

Tamara Haberová

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Food Processing in Tropics and Subtropics, Institute of Tropics and Subtropics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB LB. Performed the experiments: KB. Analyzed the data: KB LB TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KB. Wrote the paper: KB LB TH.

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