The study was conducted at the UFSM with the purpose to verify the behavior between 12 bovine (Polled Hereford) and 12 bubaline (Mediterranean) steers with 20 months of age. The roughage (fresh chopped sugar cane or com silage) constituted 70% of the dry matter offered, the remaining of the diet was completed with concentrate. The food was provided ad libitum twice daily. The animals, identified with ink number, were observed during four periods of 24 hours during the month of August 1989. The social hierarchy was estabilished through the interation of agressiveness of one animal upon the other. A more intenso hiorarchy among bubalino was obsorved, where the more agressive made better weight gains.
Behavior; bovine; bubaline; feedlot; social hierarchy
