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Do Lambs Perceive Regular Human Stroking as Pleasant? Behavior and Heart Rate Variability Analyses

Stroking by humans is beneficial to the human-animal relationship and improves welfare in many species that express intraspecific allogrooming, but very few studies have looked at species like sheep that do not express such contact except around parturition. This study investigated the way lambs per...

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Autores principales: Coulon, Marjorie, Nowak, Raymond, Peyrat, Julie, Chandèze, Hervé, Boissy, Alain, Boivin, Xavier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25714604
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118617