Minimizing aggression during mixing of gestating sows with supplementation of a tryptophan-enriched diet
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: aggression, animal welfare, gestation, social mixing, swine, tryptophan
2014
Does the presence of a human affect the preference of enrichment items in young, isolated pigs?
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: housing, isolation, mat, mirror, preference, swine
2013
The pig’s nose and its role in dominance relationships and harmful behaviour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: allogrooming, dominance hierarchy, snout contact, swine, tail-biting
2013
Prenatal stress and ketamine affect the behavioral and physiological responsiveness of early adolescent pigs to a novel arena and social confrontation test
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: anxiety, behavior, cortisol, ketamine, prenatal stress, swine
2013
Stress measures in tail biters and bitten pigs in a matched case-control study
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: adrenal, animal welfare, injurious behaviour, physiology, swine, thyroid
2013
The effect of domestication and ontogeny in swine cognition (Sus scrofa scrofa and S. s. domestica)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cognition, domestication, inference, object choice, swine
2012
Effect of genetic homogeneity on behavioural variability in an object recognition test in cloned Göttingen minipigs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: behaviour, cloning, cognitive test, memory, swine, variability
2012
Relationship between growth rate and oral manipulation, social nosing, and aggression in finishing pigs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: affiliative behaviour, average daily gain, indirect genetic effects, swine, tail-biting
2012
Cognitive testing of pigs (Sus scrofa) in translational biobehavioral research
Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Keywords: behavioral paradigms, behavioural paradigms, cognition, learning, memory, operant conditioning, pig, sus scrofus, swine
2011
Measuring Motivation in Swine: The Food-Metric Scale
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: motivation, swine
2011