Calves’ motivation for access to two different types of social contact measured by operant conditioning

By Louise Holm, M. B. Jensen, L. Jeppesen. 2002

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Quantifying behavioural priorities—effects of time constraints on behaviour of dairy cows, Bos taurus (2005, background): “Holm et al. (2002) showed that calves are more motivated to get access to full contact than to head contact.”
Using preference, motivation and aversion tests to ask scientific questions about animals’ feelings (2006, background): “…below which a resource is said to be highly valued without referring to a comparator, for example, a price elasticity of less than 1 (e.g., Matthews and Ladewig, 1994; Holm et al., 2002), or a slope not significantly different from zero (e.g., Cooper and Appleby, 1996; Sherwin and Nicol, 1996).”