Coping personality type and environmental enrichment affect aggression at weaning in pigs

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 133, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 144-153

  Melotti, Luca ^a   Oostindjer, Marije ^b   Bolhuis, J Elizabeth ^b   Held, Suzanne ^a   Mendl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; Enrichment; Environmental change; Personality; Pig; Weaning

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; LESION; PIG; SKIN; SUBSTRATE; WEANING;

SUIDAE;

EID: 79960221715     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.05.018     Document Type: Article

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