Social housing improves dairy calves' performance in two cognitive tests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Gaillard, Charlotte ^a   Meagher, Rebecca K ^a   Von Keyserlingk, Marina A G ^a   Weary, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CALF (BOVINE); COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; HOLSTEIN CATTLE; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; REARING; SOCIAL HOUSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; Y-MAZE TEST;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COGNITION; DAIRYING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HOUSING, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84896299899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090205     Document Type: Article

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