Play behavior: persistence, decrease, and energetic compensation during food shortage in deer fawns.
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.
Muller-Schwarze
D
D
Stagge
B
B
Muller-Schwarze
C
C