Performance on a categorisation task suggests that removal of environmental enrichment induces 'pessimism' in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

Animal Welfare

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL., 2007, Pages 33-36

  Bateson, Melissa ^a   Matheson, S M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective state; Animal welfare; Cognitive bias; Contrast effect; Emotion; Environmental enrichment

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAGE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PESSIMISM; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STARLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE AVERSION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 34250187775     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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