Social network properties predict chronic aggression in commercial pig systems.
Post-mixing aggression in pigs is a harmful and costly behaviour which negatively impacts both animal welfare and farm efficiency. There is vast unexplained variation in the amount of acute and chronic aggression that dyadic behaviours do not fully explain. This study hypothesised that certain pen-l...
Main Authors: | Simone Foister, Andrea Doeschl-Wilson, Rainer Roehe, Gareth Arnott, Laura Boyle, Simon Turner |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6171926?pdf=render |
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