Individual behavioral correlates of tail biting in pre-finishing piglets

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    This explorative study aims to validate how tail biting is related to general behaviors at the individual level and explore whether these behaviors are related to a particular type of tail biting: two-stage, sudden-forceful, obsessive, or epidemic. Ten individual behaviors were recorded based on the general behaviors expected to be linked to giving tail biting (PCA1), receiving tail biting (PCA2), and tail biting damage (PCA3). When relating PCA2 with tail biting received, piglets receiving more tail biting were more "explored while active" and "attacked and explored." The relationship between explorative behaviors and . . .

     

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