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SUBMITTER: Lange A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7143138 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lange Annika A Franzmayr Sandra S Wisenöcker Vera V Futschik Andreas A Waiblinger Susanne S Lürzel Stephanie S
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20200304 3
Gentle animal-human interactions, such as stroking, can promote positive emotions and thus welfare in cattle. While previous studies showed that stroking at the ventral neck elicited the most positive reactions in cows, intra-specific allogrooming in cattle includes different body regions and is probably guided partly by the receiver. Thus, we compared heifers' (<i>n</i> = 28) reactions to stroking with the experimenter either reactively responding to perceived momentary preferences of the heife ...[more]