Social buffering in a bird

J Edgar, S Held, E Paul, I Pettersson, RIA Price, C Nicol - Animal Behaviour, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•We compared stress responses of chicks in the presence and absence of their
mother.•We also measured the hens' socially mediated arousal (SMA) during chick …

Towards a virtual fencing system: training domestic sheep using audio stimuli

N Kleanthous, A Hussain, J Sneddon, W Khan, B Khan… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Virtual fencing is useful for restricting animal movement in a controlled
environment with cost and maintenance benefits over physical fencing. Physical fencing is …

Behavioural reactivity testing in sheep indicates the presence of multiple temperament traits

L Atkinson, RE Doyle, A Woodward, EC Jongman - Behavioural Processes, 2022 - Elsevier
Temperament in sheep is commonly presented as unidimensional, with a 'nervous'
temperament indicative of fear and reactivity towards humans and novel environments …

[HTML][HTML] The protective effect of social support: Can humans reassure pigs during stressful challenges through social learning?

D Luna, J Calderón-Amor, C González, CJ Byrd… - Applied Animal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Farm animals can socially learn to trust a human after observing that human handling a
familiar conspecific gently, even if they never positively interacted with the human …

Temperament Behaviours in Individually Tested Sheep Are Not Related to Behaviours Expressed in the Presence of Conspecifics

L Atkinson, RE Doyle, EC Jongman - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary To identify sheep temperament, researchers often test sheep individually.
Under these conditions, vocalisations and locomotory behaviours in sheep are highly …

Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish

ID Akinrinade, SAM Varela, RF Oliveira - Animal Cognition, 2023 - Springer
The alarm substance in fish is a pheromone released by injured individuals after a predator
attack. When detected by other fish, it triggers fear/defensive responses, such as freezing …

Effects of cumulative duration of repeated anaesthesia exposure on foetal brain development in the ovine model

T Bleeser, D Basurto, F Russo, S Vergote… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Anaesthesia is required in 0.4–1% of pregnant women, and prolonged and
repeated exposures to anaesthesia may be required. It is unknown whether these …

Shared stressful experiences affect social proximity in Merino sheep

H Keshavarzi, C Lee, TR Dyall, M Johnson… - Biology …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While it is well established that humans develop stronger relationship bonds when they
share stressful experiences, there is little known on how shared stressful experiences may …

A pilot study into the use of global navigation satellite system technology to quantify the behavioural responses of sheep during simulated dog predation events

JK Manning, ES Fogarty, MG Trotter… - Animal Production …, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
The predation of sheep (Ovis aries) by wild and domestic dogs (Canis lupis) is a major issue
in Australia, causing serious welfare issues to inflicted animals. The estimated cost of sheep …

Understanding the natural behaviour of sheep

GN Hinch - Advances in sheep welfare, 2017 - Elsevier
The domesticated sheep (Ovis aries) has a diversity of genotypes that are adapted to a wide
variety of environments ranging from the tropics to the extreme seasonality of the high …