Automated recording of stress vocalisations as a tool to document impaired welfare in pigs

Animal Welfare

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-110

  Schon P C ^a   Puppe, B ^a   Manteuffel, G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Neural networks; Pig; Stress; Vocalisation; Welfare assessment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOCUMENTATION; EMOTION; LINEAR SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; MICROCOMPUTER; MONITORING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; PREDICTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SOUND; STRESS; SWINE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 2342527871     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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