Social support in pigs with different coping styles

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 129, Issue , 2014, Pages 221-229

  Reimert, Inonge ^a   Bolhuis, J Elizabeth ^a   Kemp, Bas ^a   Rodenburg, T Bas ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavior; Coping style; Cortisol; Heart rate variability; Pigs; Social support

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; VOCALIZATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; GESTURE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MICTURITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SALIVA; SWINE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYDROCORTISONE; KINESICS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SALIVA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUS SCROFA; TIME FACTORS; URINATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84896326539     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.02.059     Document Type: Article

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