Diversity of behaviour during novel object tests is reduced in pigs housed in substrate-impoverished conditions
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The effects of substrate on the diversity of behavior in young growing pigs were studied.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
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Assessing the 'whole animal': a free choice profiling approach
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Research is presented concerning the terminology used by scientists in the qualitative assessment of the behavior of animals. The observational foundation of qualitative assessment is tested and discussed.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2001
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Early life predictors of the development of aggressive behavior in the domestic pig
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Stable differences were shown by individuals in their aggressive responses towards unfamiliar conspecifics. The extent to which variables present during early life that was correlated with these later individual differences in aggressive behavior is investigated.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2004
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