Animal Emotion and Cognition

Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:10 - 12:30, Hall A

Chair Drewe M Ferguson CSIRO Livestock IndustriesAustralia
To rely on own experience or to do what others do? – testing conflict of information in the domestic pig
  • Liat R Thomsen, University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Biology; Aarhus University, Department of Animal Health, Welfare and Nutrition, Denmark
Emotion, cognition and welfare of birds
  • Gisela Kaplan, University of New England, Australia
Pigs adjust their foraging preference depending on who they are foraging with
  • Samantha M Jones, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Responses to inequity: dominance and scrounging in egg cannibalism by laying hens
  • Ruth C Newberry, Washington State University, United States
Can simple visual discrimination learning be used on laying hens as on-farm assessment?
  • Franziska Kuhne, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Division of Animal Welfare and Ethology, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany
Effects of previous handling on calf responses towards humans
  • James R Webster, AgResearch Ltd, New Zealand