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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
32
Citations
6420
World Ranking
2078
National Ranking
74

Best Publications

  • Assessment of positive emotions in animals to improve their welfare.

    Alain Boissy;Gerhard Manteuffel;Margit Bak Jensen;Randi Oppermann Moe

  • Heart rate variability as a measure of autonomic regulation of cardiac activity for assessing stress and welfare in farm animals -- a review.

    Eberhard von Borell;Jan Langbein;Gérard Després;Sven Hansen

  • Heart rate variability: a noninvasive approach to measure stress in calves and cows.

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  • Personality Research in Mammalian Farm Animals: Concepts, Measures, and Relationship to Welfare.

    Marie-Antonine Finkemeier;Jan Langbein;Birger Puppe;Birger Puppe

  • The emergence of emotional lateralization: Evidence in non-human vertebrates and implications for farm animals

    Lisette M.C. Leliveld;Jan Langbein;Birger Puppe;Birger Puppe

  • Heart rate variability in dairy cows—influences of breed and milking system

    K. Hagen;J. Langbein;C. Schmied;D. Lexer

  • Analysing dominance relationships by sociometric methods—a plea for a more standardised and precise approach in farm animals

    Jan Langbein;Birger Puppe

  • The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis

    Maxime Cauchoix;P Chow;P Chow;J van Horik;C Atance

  • Visual discrimination learning in dwarf goats and associated changes in heart rate and heart rate variability

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  • Effects of cognitive enrichment on behavioural and physiological reactions of pigs.

    Manuela Zebunke;Birger Puppe;Birger Puppe;Jan Langbein

  • Farm animal cognition-linking behavior, welfare and ethics

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  • On the use of an automated learning device by group-housed dwarf goats: do goats seek cognitive challenges?

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  • Degree of social isolation affects behavioural and vocal response patterns in dwarf goats (Capra hircus)

    Katrin Siebert;Jan Langbein;Peter-Christian Schön;Armin Tuchscherer

  • Autonomic reactions indicating positive affect during acoustic reward learning in domestic pigs

    Manuela Zebunke;Jan Langbein;Gerhard Manteuffel;Birger Puppe

  • Comparative Analysis of Ultradian and Circadian Behavioural Rhythms for Diagnosis of Biorhythmic State of Animals

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  • ETHOSYS (R)—new system for recording and analysis of behaviour of free-ranging domestic animals and wildlife

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  • From operant learning to cognitive enrichment in farm animal housing: bases and applicability.

    G. Manteuffel;J. Langbein;B. Puppe

  • Increasing farm animal welfare by positively motivated instrumental behaviour

    Gerhard Manteuffel;Jan Langbein;Birger Puppe

  • Comprehensive analysis of affiliative and agonistic social networks in lactating dairy cattle groups

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  • Assessment of chronic stress in sheep (part I): The use of cortisol and cortisone in hair as non-invasive biological markers

    Solveig M. Stubsjøen;Jon Bohlin;Jon Bohlin;Ellen Dahl;Maren Knappe-Poindecker

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