Individual coping characteristics, aggressiveness and fighting strategies in pigs

By J. Elizabeth Bolhuis, W. Schouten, J. Schrama, V. Wiegant. 2005

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The impact of group size on damaging behaviours, aggression, fear and stress in farm animals § (2007, background): “HR pigs showed high levels of aggression regardless of their success (Bolhuis et al., 2005).”
Effects of rearing and housing environment on behaviour and performance of pigs with different coping characteristics (2006, background): “Half of these pigs were also part of another study investigating the effects of rearing environment on the development of behaviour of growing-finishing pigs (Bolhuis et al., 2005a).”
Behavioural development of pigs with different coping characteristics in barren and substrate-enriched housing conditions (2005, background): “This is an interesting point since LR pigs were reported to react more flexibly in changing situations than HR pigs, both at a young age in social (Bolhuis et al., 2005) and non-social challenges (Bolhuis et al.”
Behavioural profile predicts dominance status in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli (2009, unknown): “…& Carrick (2001), stress responsiveness and exploratory behaviour may simply covary with some other trait that more directly affects competitive ability, such as aggression (e.g. Verbeek et al. 1996; Armitage & Van Vuren 2003; Bolhuis et al. 2005) or response to social defeat (Verbeek et al. 1999).”