Monitoring of piglets' open field activity and choice behaviour during the replay of maternal vocalization: A comparison between Observer and PID technique

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 215-220

  Puppe, B ^a   Schon P C ^a   Wendland, K ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal choice; LabVIEW; Open field activity; PID technique; Piglets; Replay; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROCOMPUTER; MONITORING; MOTHER; MOTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; SWINE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032817715     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367799780578110     Document Type: Article

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