title: Play behavior: persistence, decrease, and energetic compensation during food shortage in deer fawns.
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.
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authors.lastname: Muller-Schwarze
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authors.lastname: Stagge
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authors.lastname: Muller-Schwarze