Decision-making under risk and ambiguity in low-birth-weight pigs

Animal Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 561-572

  Murphy, Eimear ^a,b   Kraak, Lynn ^a   van den Broek, Jan ^a   Nordquist, Rebecca E ^a,b   van der Staay, Franz Josef ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Birth weight; Decision making; Judgement bias; Pig; Risk

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRTH WEIGHT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; GAMBLING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; REWARD; RISK;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; GAMBLING; JUDGMENT; MALE; REWARD; RISK; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84925503377     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: 14359456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-014-0825-1     Document Type: Article

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