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Early Environmental Experience and Transferable Skills in the Weaned Piglet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2023

J J Cooper ,
L N Cox  and
C Whitworth
J J Cooper*
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, De Montfort University, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire NG32 3EP, UK
L N Cox
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, De Montfort University, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire NG32 3EP, UK
C Whitworth
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, De Montfort University, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire NG32 3EP, UK
*
† Contact for correspondence
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Early environmental experience can have significant effects on an animal's ability to adapt to challenges in later life. Prior experience of specific situations may facilitate the development of behavioural skills which can be applied in similar situations to later life. In addition, exposure to a more complex environment may enhance cognitive development (eg increased synaptic density), which can then speed the acquisition of new behavioural responses when faced with novel challenges (Grandin 1989).

Type
Research Article
Information
Animal Welfare , Volume 10 , Issue S1: Consciousness, Cognition and Animal Welfare: Proceedings of the UFAW Symposium, Zoological Society of London, 11-12 May 2000 , February 2001 , pp. S238
Copyright
© 2001 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

References

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