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Injury alters motivational trade-offs in calves during the healing period

Injury can produce long-lasting motivational changes that may alter decisions made under risk. Our objective was to determine whether a routine painful husbandry procedure, hot-iron disbudding, affects how calves trade off risk avoidance against a competing motivation (i.e., feeding), and whether th...

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Autores principales: Adcock, Sarah J. J., Tucker, Cassandra B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7994642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86313-z