Behavioural and physiological assessment of positive and negative emotion in sheep

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 651-659

  Reefmann, Nadine ^a,b   Wechsler, Beat ^a   Gygax, Lorenz ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; emotion; heart rate; human animal interaction; Ovis; perspiration; respiration; RMSSD; sampling duration; sheep

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CAPTIVE POPULATION; CORRELATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SAMPLING; SHEEP; SOCIAL HOUSING;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 69249206508     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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