Chronic stress induces pessimistic-like judgment and learning deficits in sheep

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 28-36

  Destrez, Alexandra ^a   Deiss, Véronique ^a   Lévy, Frédéric ^b   Calandreau, Ludovic ^b   Lee, Caroline ^c   Chaillou Sagon, Elodie ^b   Boissy, Alain ^a  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^b UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Cognitive bias; Emotion; Judgment; Learning; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COGNITION; FOOD; LEARNING; SHEEP; TRAINING; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84884357425     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2013.07.016     Document Type: Article

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