Vigilance as a measure of fear in dairy cattle

By T. Welp, J. Rushen, D. Kramer, M. Festa‐Bianchet, A. D. Passillé. 2004

138 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Small Animals

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1b28944ea7d391811741eaf02f837f1e8338b056

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In Ecology

1. I. Gordon
2. D. Broom

In Genetics

1. I. Gordon
2. D. Broom
3. R. Müller

In Small Animals

1. I. Gordon
2. D. Broom
3. R. Müller

Citations in the corpus

• Consistency of flight speed and its correlation to productivity and to personality in Bos taurus beef cattle (2006, background): “In cattle, the appearance of immobility and vigilance has been interpreted as a sign of fear (Boissy and Bouissou, 1995; Welp et al., 2004; Müller and Schrader, 2005b).”
• Measuring emotional processes in animals: the utility of a cognitive approach. (2005, unknown): “For example, elevated ‘head-up’ time and pronounced opening of the eyes – presumably to enable better vision – have been observed in domestic cattle exposed to threatening or frustrating situations, and may be a useful measure of negative affective states [94,257].”
• Effects of human-animal relationship on animal productivity and welfare (2020, background): “Within this topic Welp et al (2004) found that dairy cows show greater vigilance behaviour, an indicator of fear, in the presence of people who have negative attitudes towards them, in comparison with unfamiliar individuals and people with whom they have positive interaction, indicating that…”
• The Landscape of Fear: Ecological Implications of Being Afraid~!2009-09-09~!2009-11-16~!2010-02-02~! (2010, unknown): “Outwardly, fear can be measured by levels of vigilance (Welp et al. 2004).”
• Red deer Cervus elephus vigilance behaviour differs with habitat and type of human disturbance (2008, background): “1979, 1982), domestic cattle (Welp et al. 2004),western snowy plovers Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus (Lafferty 2001) and sanderlings Calidris alba (Thomas et al.”