Effect of social group size on aggressive behaviour between unacquainted domestic pigs

By S. Turner, G. Horgan, Sandra A. Edwards. 2001

112 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Small Animals

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/34c6a4197794bd43e8c44f0e36e6402728c3c776

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In Animal Science and Zoology

1. T. Rodenburg
2. P. Koene

In Small Animals

1. T. Rodenburg
2. P. Koene

Citations in the corpus

• The impact of group size on damaging behaviours, aggression, fear and stress in farm animals § (2007, background): “Turner et al. (2001) showed that pigs from a group of 80 were less aggressive to unfamiliar pigs than pigs from groups of 20 individuals, while they could still recognise familiar pigs.”
• Group housing of sows in early pregnancy: a review of success and risk factors. (2009, unknown): “In a later study Turner et al. (2001) supported this theory when they found that pigs from large groups were less aggressive towards unfamiliar other animals in the group, compared to pigs from small groups.”