How to measure dairy cows’ responsiveness towards humans in breeding and welfare assessment? A comparison of selected behavioural measures and existing breeding traits
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: breeding traits, dairy cattle, human-animal relationship, reliability, validity
2017
Behavioural response of dairy cows with and without calf-contact to hair of own and alien calves presented in the milking parlour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: calf rearing, cattle, maternal discrimination, olfaction, young recognition
2016
Is rearing calves with the dam a feasible option for dairy farms?—Current and future research
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: alternative calf rearing, dairy calves, suckling, welfare
2016
Effects of space allowance in the waiting area on agonistic interactions and heart rate of high and low ranking horned dairy cows
Publication/Journal: Livestock Science
Keywords: agonistic behaviour, agriculture, animal welfare, automatic milking, behavior, cattle, dairy & animal science, heart rate, holding pen, milking parlour, parlor, rabbits, rate-variability, responses, stress, system, yield
2015
Assessing the welfare of dairy calves: outcome-based measures of calf health versus input-based measures of the use of risky management practices
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, dairy calves, health, management, on-farm assessment, producers' attitude
2012
Experimental evidence for olfactory predator recognition in wild mouse lemurs
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: antipredator behavior, feces, fossa, microcebus, olfaction, primate
2011
Social licking in dairy cattle—Effects on heart rate in performers and receivers
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: affective states, affiliative social behavior, affiliative social behaviour, allogrooming, cardiac activity, dairy cows
2011
Reliability and feasibility of selected measures concerning resting behaviour for the on-farm welfare assessment in dairy cows
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: dairy cow housing, on-farm welfare assessment, reliability, resting behaviour
2010
On-farm welfare assessment in cattle- validity, reliability and feasibility issues and future perspectives with special regard to the Welfare Quality® approach
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, cattle, certification, reliability, validity, welfare assessment
2009
The sensory basis of prey detection in captive-born grey mouse lemurs, Microcebus murinus
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: foraging, grey mouse lemur, insectivorous, microcebus murinus, prey detection, primates, sensory ecology
2008