Poor rearing conditions and social stress in pigs: Repeated social challenge and the effect on behavioural and physiological responses to stressors

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 201-215

  Olsson, I A S ^a   De Jonge, F H ^b   Schuurman, T ^b   Helmond, F A ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NV ORGANON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Challenge; Pigs; Rearing; Social stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AGE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; NONHUMAN; REARING; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SWINE;

EID: 0032788940     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00036-4     Document Type: Article

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