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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Novel object test"”.
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Health and Welfare Implications of Temperament Differences in Dairy Cattle
… factor analysis on the results of behavioural testing. The validated framework was used to quantify the temperaments of cattle at 21, 60 and 100 days lactation. Measurements of physiological parameters, hair cortisol concentration, saliva cortisol concentration, heart rate variability and …
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Marmoset emotional regulation during adolescence and adulthood, with a particular focus on risk-taking and the role of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in motivation and affective biases
… with high value food reward. I developed a novel touchscreen-based task to assess affective bias in marmosets, in which during the week animals are trained to associate two stimuli with either a high or low food reward, and their response bias between the stimuli is assessed with a …
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The effects of LED light flicker on turkey hen production, health, and welfare to 11 weeks of age
… For the first 7 d and at 4, 8, and 11 wk, a novel object test (NOT) was performed to examine fearfulness. Data were analyzed using Proc Mixed (SAS 9.4). Tukey’s range test was used to separate means with significance declared when P<0.05. Birds in the 30HZ weighed less than those in the 195HZ …
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Exploring domestic rabbit (<i>Oryctolagus cuniculus</i>) personality utilising behaviour coding, behaviour testing and a novel behaviour rating tool
… on what is being measured by some behaviour tests that are currently employed in animal personality research and there are limited tools available to measure domestic rabbit responses to humans.<br/> <br/> Chapter three highlights several uses of rabbit behaviour and personality data in …