The use of judgement bias to assess welfare in farm livestock

Animal Welfare

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 81-91

  Baciadonna, L ^a   McElligott, A G ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective state; Animal cognition; Animal welfare; Emotions; Optimistic like; Pessimistic like

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE BIAS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FARM ANIMAL; LEARNING; LIVESTOCK; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; WELLBEING; WHITE NOISE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84922668623     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7120/09627286.24.1.081     Document Type: Article

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