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The Effect of Demonstrator Social Rank on the Attentiveness and Motivation of Pigs to Positively Interact with Their Human Caretakers

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Motivation to express a socially learned behavior can be inhibited or facilitated by the presence of socially dominant individuals, who often attract greater attention from their conspecifics. This study investigated whether experienced pigs (termed “demonstrators”) of higher rank at...

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Autores principales: Luna, Daniela, González, Catalina, Byrd, Christopher J., Palomo, Rocío, Huenul, Elizabeth, Figueroa, Jaime
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8300723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34359267
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11072140