Aggression and affiliation during social conflict in pigs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Camerlink, Irene ^a   Turner, Simon P ^b   Ursinus, Wina W ^a   Reimert, Inonge ^a   Bolhuis, J Elizabeth ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN;

AFFILIATION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONFLICT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKIN DEFECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SWINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BLOOD; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HAPTOGLOBINS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84913580282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113502     Document Type: Article

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