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EEG based assessment of stress in horses: a pilot study [PDF]
As has been hypothesized more than 20 years ago, data derived from Electroencephalography (EEG) measurements can be used to distinguish between behavioral states associated with animal welfare.
Nora V. de Camp +4 more
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Seasonality impacts collective movements in a wild group-living bird
Background A challenge faced by animals living in groups with stable long-term membership is to effectively coordinate their actions and maintain cohesion.
Danai Papageorgiou +3 more
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Terrestrial mammals exploiting coastal resources must cope with the challenge that resource availability and accessibility fluctuate with tidal cycles. Tool use can improve foraging efficiency and provide access to structurally protected resources that ...
Zoë Goldsborough +6 more
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A multi-species evaluation of digital wildlife monitoring using the Sigfox IoT network
Bio-telemetry from small tags attached to animals is one of the principal methods for studying the ecology and behaviour of wildlife. The field has constantly evolved over the last 80 years as technological improvement enabled a diversity of sensors to ...
Timm A. Wild +22 more
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Wing tags severely impair movement in African Cape Vultures
Background The use of tracking technologies is key for the study of animal movement and pivotal to ecological and conservation research. However, the potential effects of devices attached to animals are sometimes neglected. The impact of tagging not only
Teja Curk +6 more
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Animals that travel together in groups must constantly come to consensus about both the direction and speed of movement, often simultaneously. Contributions to collective decisions may vary among group members, yet inferring who has influence over group ...
Baptiste Averly +5 more
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Background Claw abnormalities, particularly claw asymmetries, are associated with lameness in pigs and can be a welfare issue. However, the prevalence and development of claw asymmetries in pigs of different age is unknown.
Sarah Seufert +3 more
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Bacterial Burden in the Air of Indoor Riding Arenas
Airway diseases in horses are often multifactorial and have a strong environmental background because diseased horses react to inhaled agents. In this study, the air quality of closed riding arenas was analyzed monthly in four riding arenas over the ...
Torsten Lühe +5 more
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Assessing Mongolian gerbil emotional behavior: effects of two shock intensities and response-independent shocks during an extended inhibitory-avoidance task [PDF]
Despite step-down inhibitory avoidance procedures that have been widely implemented in rats and mice to study learning and emotion phenomena, performance of other species in these tasks has received less attention.
Camilo Hurtado-Parrado +11 more
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