Review of wallowing in pigs: Implications for animal welfare

Animal Welfare

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 347-363

  Bracke, M B M ^a   Spoolder, H A M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Ethics; Natural behaviour; Pigs; Semantic modelling; Wallowing behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; SWINE; WALLOWING;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 79960865788     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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