A general reaction pattern across situations in prepubertal gilts

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-119

  Thodberg, Karen ^a   Jensen, Karin H ^a   Herskin, Mette S ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human test; Individual differences; Open field; Pig; Social and non social test situations; Social test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033526087     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(99)00009-X     Document Type: Article

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