Experience in substrate-enriched and substrate-impoverished environments affects behaviour of pigs in a T-maze task

Behaviour

Volumn 134, Issue 9-10, 1997, Pages 643-659

  Mendl, Michael ^a,b   Erhard, Hans W ^a   Haskell, Marie ^a,c   Wemelsfelder, Françoise ^a   Lawrence, Alistair B ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0039498783     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853997X00016     Document Type: Article

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