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Providing Meaningful Environmental Enrichment and Measuring Saliva Cortisol in Pigs Housed on Slatted Flooring
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Salivary cortisol as an indicator of stress in sheep (Ovis ovis)
New Zealand Veterinary Journal
|November 1, 1995
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