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Calling by Domestic Piglets during Simulated Crushing and Isolation: A Signal of Need?

This study examined whether piglet distress vocalizations vary with age, body weight and health status, according to the predictions of the honest signalling of need evolutionary model. Vocalizations were recorded during manual squeezing (a simulation of being crushed by mother sow) and during isola...

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Autores principales: Illmann, Gudrun, Hammerschmidt, Kurt, Špinka, Marek, Tallet, Céline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3862757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24349527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083529