Publications

Stereotyped behaviour, adjunctive drinking and the feeding periods of tethered sows

The movement of the food trolley causes considerable excitement in the animals, and it is during this period that bar-biting, nose rubbing, and head-weaving occur most rapidly. ... Stereotyped sequences of behaviour may be a means of reducing the arousal...

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Rushen, J. 1984. Stereotyped behaviour, adjunctive drinking and the feeding periods of tethered sows. Animal Behaviour 32, 1059-1067.

Behavioral sex differences in muskox calves

A calf nibbles at the coat of a partner's neck or wither. The latter interrupts this by moving away slightly. .. The animal that was nibbled did not show signs of aggression nor did it retreat. .. Nibbling occurred more...

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Cattle

Citation: Reinhardt, V. 1984. Behavioral sex differences in muskox calves. Biological Papers of the University of Alaska, Special Report 4, 110-117.

Influence of the number of fryer rabbits per cage on their performance

Crowding resulted in a decrease of feeding and led to the problems of fur plucking and ear biting.

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Rabbit

Citation: Maertens, L., DeGroote, G. 1984. Influence of the number of fryer rabbits per cage on their performance. Journal of Applied Rabbit Research 7, 151-155.

Behavioural approaches to rodent management

Clear discussion of spatial needs to allow for basic, species-characteristic postures and behaviors. The use of the species ethogram when caging is designed means something more than enclosing a few vital function within a space designed for human convenience; it...

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Rodent

Citation: Lawlor, M. M. 1984. Behavioural approaches to rodent management. In: Standards in Laboratory Animal Management. 40-49. Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, Hertfordshire, UK.

Social interactions in a group of free-ranging sows

Description of species-typical behavior of free-ranging pigs. No dramatic differences were found between the behaviour of the free-ranging sows and that of the most extensively housed of the indoor groups studied earlier, although great differences were found between free-ranging sows...

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Jensen, P., Wood-Gush, D. G. M. 1984. Social interactions in a group of free-ranging sows. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 12, 327-337.

Production and behaviour of laying domestic fowls in outside pens

The birds outside produced on average as many eggs (337 in 560 days) as those inside (378), and of greater mean weight. ... Feather condition was better in birds in [outside] pens and their body weight was greater than that...

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Hughes, B. O., Dun, P. 1984. Production and behaviour of laying domestic fowls in outside pens. Applied Animal Ethology (Applied Animal Behaviour Science) 11, 201 (Abstract).

Association between cage shelf level and spontaneous and induced neoplasms in mice

Mortality and tumor incidence in carcinogenesis experiments differ between mice caged in the top vs. bottom of the rack.

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Greenman, D. L., Kodell, R. L., Sheldon, W. G. 1984. Association between cage shelf level and spontaneous and induced neoplasms in mice. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 73, 107-113.

Toy preference in young pigs

Young pigs preferred strips of cloth over chains or rubber hoses.

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Grandin, T., Curtis, S. E. 1984. Toy preference in young pigs. Journal of Animal Science 59 (Supplement 1), 85 (Abstract).

Activity and welfare in dogs

We need to distinguish between the minimum amount of exercise required to merely maintain health and well-being and the optimum level for their full physical and social development. This latter could [should] then be the standard. .... There is a...

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Ewbank, R. 1984. Activity and welfare in dogs. In: Standards in Laboratory Animal Management. The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare 125-128. The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, Potters Bar, UK.

Behaviour of sheep transferred from pasture to an animal house

Sheep kept for long periods in [single] pens had many stereotypic behaviour patters. .. perhaps caution is needed to extrapolate results from nutritional and physiological traits in pens to sheep at pasture.Sheep kept in individual pens develop locomotor stereotypies, including...

Year Published: 1984Animal Type: Sheep

Citation: Done-Currie, J. R., Hecker, J. F., Wodzicka-Tomaszewka, M. 1984. Behaviour of sheep transferred from pasture to an animal house. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 12, 121-130.