Cardiac activity in dairy goats whilst feeding side-by-side at two different distances and during social separation

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 641-648

  Aschwanden, Janine ^a   Gygax, Lorenz ^a   Wechsler, Beat ^a   Keil, Nina M ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Feeding distance; Goat; Heart rate variability; Rank within group; RMSSD; Separation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOAT; HEART RATE; HORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOATS; HEART RATE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 56549099342     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.09.016     Document Type: Article

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