Learning how to eat like a pig: Effectiveness of mechanisms for vertical social learning in piglets

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 503-511

  Oostindjer, Marije ^a   Bolhuis, J Elizabeth ^a   Mendl, Mike ^b   Held, Suzanne ^b   van den Brand, Henry ^a   Kemp, Bas ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local enhancement; Mother; Participation; Pig; Social learning; Stimulus enhancement; Sus scrofa; Weaning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PIG; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WEANING;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 80051667623     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.031     Document Type: Article

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