The effect of substrate-enriched and substrate-impoverished housing environments on the diversity of behaviour in pigs

Behaviour

Volumn 133, Issue 9-10, 1996, Pages 741-761

  Haskell, Marie ^a   Wemelsfelder, Françoise ^a   Mendl, Michael T ^a   Calvert, Sheena ^a   Lawrence, Alistair B ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANIPULATIVE BEHAVIOUR; MOTIVATION; PIG; SUBSTRATE ENRICHMENT;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030439123     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853996x00459     Document Type: Article

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