Background In recent decades there has been a growing concern about animal stress on
intensive pig farms due to the undesirable consequences that stress produces in the normal …

This paper summarizes the current views on coping styles as a useful concept in
understanding individual adaptive capacity and vulnerability to stress-related disease …

The use of saliva as a biological sample has many advantages, being especially relevant in
pigs where the blood collection is highly stressful and painful, both for the animal and the …

Measuring HPA axis activity is the standard approach to the study of stress and welfare in
farm animals. Although the reference technique is the use of blood plasma to measure …

Contemporary researchers regard emotional states as multifaceted, comprising
physiological, behavioural, cognitive and subjective components. Subjective, conscious …

For the welfare of group-housed animals, such as pigs, the emotional state of an individual
pig is relevant, but also the extent to which pen mates are affected by the distress or …

The study of animal emotion, as with its human equivalent, can be confusing due to the
complicated and inconsistent use of terminology, and the number of interlinked fields and …

Social isolation of rodents during development is thought to be a relevant model of early-life
chronic stress. We investigated the effects of early-life social isolation on later adult fear and …

Heat stress (HS) affects pig performance, health and welfare, resulting in a financial burden
to the pig industry. Pigs have a limited number of functional sweat glands and their …

Previously we showed that pigs reared in an enriched environment had higher baseline
salivary cortisol concentrations during the light period than pigs reared under barren …