Domestic pigs, Sus scrofa, adjust their foraging behaviour to whom they are foraging with

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 857-862

  Held, Suzanne D E ^a   Byrne, Richard W ^b   Jones, Samantha ^a   Murphy, Eimear ^a   Friel, Mary ^a   Mendl, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

domestic pig; individual discrimination; social foraging; Sus scrofa; tactical deception

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DOMESTIC SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PIG; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CORVIDA; PRIMATES; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 77949489951     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.035     Document Type: Article

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