The effect of biting tails and having tails bitten in pigs

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 638-644

  Zupan, Manja ^a,b   Janczak, Andrew M ^a   Framstad, Tore ^a   Zanella, Adroaldo J ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavior; Fear tests; Heart rate (max. 6); Pigs; Tail biting; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL; TAIL BITING; VAGUS TONE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEART RATE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SWINE; TAIL;

EID: 84861141787     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.04.025     Document Type: Article

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