Social hierarchy affects the adaption of pregnant sows to a call feeding learning paradigm

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 30-36

  Manteuffel, Gerhard ^a   Mannewitz, Anja ^a   Manteuffel, Christian ^a   Tuchscherer, Armin ^a   Schrader, Lars ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic calling; Cognitive enrichment; Domestic pig; Learning; Memory; Rank order; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ALARM SIGNAL; ANIMAL WELFARE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LEARNING; MEMORY; PIG; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 78549269380     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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