Are pigs sensitive to variability in food rewards?

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 93-104

  de Jonge, Francien H ^a,b   Ooms, Monique ^a   Kuurman, Willem W ^a   Maes, Joseph H R ^c   Spruijt, Berry M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feeding; Foraging; Learning; Operant conditioning; Pigs; Predictability; Risk sensitive foraging; Unpredictability; Variability; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTIFICIAL DIET; CONDITIONING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; PIG; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 51449115699     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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