The sensitivity of QBA assessments of sheep behavioural expression to variations in visual or verbal information provided to observers

Qualitative behavioural assessment (QBA) is based on observers’ ability to capture the dynamic complexity of an animal’s demeanour as it interacts with the environment, in terms such as tense, anxious or relaxed. Sensitivity to context is part of QBA’s integrative capacity and discriminatory power;...

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Main Authors: P.A. Fleming, S.L. Wickham, C.A. Stockman, E. Verbeek, L. Matthews, F. Wemelsfelder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731114003164