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Social Housing Improves Dairy Calves' Performance in Two Cognitive Tests

Early social housing is known to benefit cognitive development in laboratory animals. Pre-weaned dairy calves are typically separated from their dam immediately after birth and housed alone, but no work to date has addressed the effect of individual housing on cognitive performance of these animals....

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Autores principales: Gaillard, Charlotte, Meagher, Rebecca K., von Keyserlingk, Marina A. G., Weary, Daniel M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24587281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090205