Social isolation affects the motivation to work for food and straw in pigs as measured by operant conditioning techniques

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 295-309

  Pedersen, Lene Juul ^a   Jensen, Margit Bak ^a   Hansen, Steffen W ^a   Munksgaard, Lene ^a   Ladewig, J ^b   Matthews, Lindsay ^c  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Demand functions; Operant conditioning; Pigs; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

FOOD; ISOLATION EFFECT; PIG; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0037189450     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00066-7     Document Type: Article

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