Announcing the arrival of enrichment increases play behaviour and reduces weaning-stress-induced behaviours of piglets directly after weaning

By S. Dudink, Helma Simonse, I. Marks, F. H. Jonge, B. Spruijt. 2006

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Effects of environmental enrichment and loose housing of lactating sows on piglet behaviour before and after weaning (2011, background): “The weaning process furthermore leads to a high incidence of maladaptive behaviours such as belly nosing and damaging of ears, tails and limbs of pen mates (Dudink et al., 2006; Torrey and Widowski, 2006; Widowski et al., 2008).”
Behaviour of domestic fowl in anticipation of positive and negative stimuli (2011, background): “In rats, Rattus norvegicus (Van der Harst et al. 2003a, 2005), mink, Mustela vison (Vinke et al. 2004) and pigs, Sus scrofa (Dudink et al. 2006), anticipation of a positive event is characterized by increased activity and a rise in behavioural transition patterns.”
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation (2013, background): “An experiment involving young pigs showed how their experience before the age of weaning could affect the amount that they played more than a month after weaning (Dudink et al., 2006).”
Animal play and animal welfare (2011, background): “Finally, domestic pigs and guinea pigs, Cavia porcellus, increase their locomotor-rotational play in response to a conditioned stimulus signalling the arrival of a reward (Dudink et al. 2006; B. Leci, N. J. Rooney & S. D. E. Held, unpublished data).”