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Effects of environmental enrichment on cognitive performance of pigs in a spatial holeboard discrimination task

This study investigated the effects of environmental enrichment on the cognitive performance of female conventional farm (growing) pigs in a spatial holeboard task. Ten pairs of littermates matched for weight were used. From each litter, one piglet was randomly assigned to a barren environment; the...

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Autores principales: Grimberg-Henrici, Charlotte G. E., Vermaak, Paul, Elizabeth Bolhuis, J., Nordquist, Rebecca E., van der Staay, F. Josef
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4751158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26520648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-015-0932-7