Automated tracking to measure behavioural changes in pigs for health and welfare monitoring

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Matthews, Stephen G ^a   Miller, Amy L ^a   Plötz, Thomas ^a,b   Kyriazakis, Ilias ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL WELFARE; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; MALE; PIG;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEALTH; MALE; SWINE;

EID: 85038613346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17451-6     Document Type: Article

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