The effect of domestication and ontogeny in swine cognition (Sus scrofa scrofa and S. s. domestica)

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 25-35

  Albiach Serrano, Anna ^a   Bräuer, Juliane ^a   Cacchione, Trix ^b   Zickert, Nele ^a   Amici, Federica ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Domestication; Inference; Object choice; Swine

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DOMESTIC SPECIES; DOMESTICATION; ONTOGENY; PARADIGM SHIFT; PIG; SELECTION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA; SUS SCROFA SCROFA;

EID: 84865972698     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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