Can the way pigs are handled alter behavioural and physiological measures of affective state?
| Autor: | Luigi Faucitano, Anna Bassols, Xavier Manteca, Daniel Valent, Antonio Velarde, Antoni Dalmau, Eva Mainau, Ricard Carreras, Laura Arroyo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Coping (psychology)
Saliva Hydrocortisone Swine Physiology Handling Psychological Affect (psychology) Developmental psychology Behavioral Neuroscience medicine Animals 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Behavior Animal 05 social sciences 0402 animal and dairy science Fear 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences General Medicine 040201 dairy & animal science Cognitive bias Handling (Psychology) Affect Animal Science and Zoology Psychology Fear level Serum cortisol Hair medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Behavioural Processes. 142:91-98 |
| ISSN: | 0376-6357 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.beproc.2017.06.005 |
| Popis: | Research on human-animal relationship in animal production has been mainly focused on its effect on stress, productivity and meat quality. Only few studies have assessed its effects on the animals' affective state. In the present study, the influence of positive and negative handling (pH and NH, respectively) on affective state and fear as assessed by the cognitive bias test, the novel object test and the defence cascade test was studied in 56 pigs. Serum, saliva and hair were sampled during the study for the analysis of cortisol concentration. Results showed no differences between pH and NH pigs in the behavioural tests, which may be either due to the lack of previous handling effect on the test results, the lack of validity or the low sensitivity of these tests or a combination of them. Moreover, no differences were found in cortisol concentrations between handling groups. However, correlations between tests were found (p |
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