Dairy calves social preferences and the significance of a companion animal during separation from the group

作者: Gry Færevik , Margit Bak Jensen , Knut Egil Bøe

DOI: 10.1016/J.APPLANIM.2005.10.012

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摘要: The present study investigated social preferences and separation stress in dairy calves. Twelve calves were subjected to two different experimental tests: (1) a preference test the could choose between familiar an unfamiliar calf Y-maze, (2) taken out from their home pen placed pen, once together with calf, alone. In test, spent significantly more time area where was (P < 0.05). vocalized 0.05), showed less locomotor activity 0.001), immobile 0.001) explored when separated alone compared companion calf. 0.05) that most (rs = 0.60, P conclusion, seem prefer presence familiarity of affects calves’ reaction separation.

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