Search Results - "McLeman, Morven A."

The relationship between the comb and social behaviour in laying hens by O’Connor, Emily A., Saunders, John E., Grist, Hannah, McLeman, Morven A., Wathes, Christopher M., Abeyesinghe, Siobhan M.

“…The question of whether attributes of the combs of laying hens have any consistent relationship with dominance behaviour has yet to be answered unequivocally…”
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Social discrimination of familiar conspecifics by juvenile pigs, Sus scrofa: Development of a non-invasive method to study the transmission of unimodal and bimodal cues between live stimuli by McLeman, Morven A., Mendl, Michael T., Jones, R. Bryan, Wathes, Christopher M.

“…A non-invasive method was developed to study the transmission of cues that are used in social discrimination by pigs, Sus scrofa. We investigated the ability…”
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Discrimination of conspecifics by juvenile domestic pigs, Sus scrofa by McLeman, Morven A., Mendl, Michael, Jones, R. Bryan, White, Rodger, Wathes, Christopher M.

“…Social recognition is important for the formation and maintenance of dominance hierarchies that are based on conspecific assessment. Pigs are assumed to…”
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Investigating social discrimination of group members by laying hens by Abeyesinghe, Siobhan M., McLeman, Morven A., Owen, Rachael C., McMahon, Claire E., Wathes, Christopher M.

“…Social relationships in domestic fowl are commonly assumed to rely on social recognition and its pre-requisite, discrimination of group-mates. If this is true,…”
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Controlled atmosphere stunning of broiler chickens. II. Effects on behaviour, physiology and meat quality in a commercial processing plant by McKeegan, D.E.F, Abeyesinghe, S.M, McLeman, M.A, Lowe, J.C, Demmers, T.G.M, White, R.P, Kranen, R.W, Bemmel, H. van, Lankhaar, J.A.C, Wathes, C.M

“…1. The effects of controlled atmosphere stunning on behavioural and physiological responses, and carcase and meat quality of broiler chickens were studied…”
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