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Occurrence of claw asymmetries in fattening pigs and potential impact on the development of sole ulcerations

open access: yesPorcine Health Management, 2022
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

open access: yesAgriculture, 2022
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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Walking on Tiptoes: Digital Pads Deserve Increased Attention When Scoring Footpad Dermatitis as an Animal Welfare Indicator in Turkeys

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Animal welfare is one of the most challenging issues in modern farm animal husbandry. Animal welfare indicators can be used to monitor welfare on farms or at slaughterhouses, with footpad dermatitis (FPD) being one of the most important indicators used ...
Jenny Stracke   +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]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2017
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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Smell of green leaf volatiles attracts white storks to freshly cut meadows

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Finding food is perhaps the most important task for all animals. Birds often show up unexpectedly at novel food sources such as freshly tilled fields or mown meadows.
Martin Wikelski   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laparotomy and burst suppression-inducing sevoflurane induce subtle long-term changes in anxiety and social behavior in late postnatal mice [PDF]

open access: yesKorean Journal of Anesthesiology
Background Despite strong preclinical evidence, clinical studies have reported minimal effects of early anesthesia on neurodevelopment. This discrepancy may be due to limitations of preclinical studies, including the absence of clear criteria for ...
Tao Zhang   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beach balls: Assessing frustration tolerance in young children using a computerized task

open access: yesActa Psychologica, 2022
Frustration tolerance is a skill related to emotional regulation processes and is important insofar as it affects people's social relationships and even health. Low levels of frustration tolerance in children have been associated with a greater number of
Annabel Jiménez-Soto   +4 more
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Scaling and Intermittency in Animal Behavior [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Scale-invariant spatial or temporal patterns and L\'evy flight motion have been observed in a large variety of biological systems. It has been argued that animals in general might perform L\'evy flight motion with power law distribution of times between ...
A Harnos   +19 more
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Functional and Morphological Changes in the Olfactory Epithelium of Mouse Models With Upper Respiratory Inflammation and Olfactory Dysfunction [PDF]

open access: yesClinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology
Objectives This study evaluated behavioral test results and histological findings in murine models of allergic rhinitis (AR), chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), and drug-induced anosmia, comparing outcomes among groups.
Shin Hyuk Yoo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of the neurotransmitter profile of AmFoxP expressing neurons in the honeybee brain using double-label in situ hybridization

open access: yesBMC Neuroscience, 2018
Background FoxP transcription factors play crucial roles for the development and function of vertebrate brains. In humans the neurally expressed FOXPs, FOXP1, FOXP2, and FOXP4 are implicated in cognition, including language.
Adriana Schatton   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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