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Johanna W M Arts1, F Josef van der Staay, E Dinand Ekkel
1Wageningen University and Research Centre, Department of Ethology, Wageningen, The Netherlands. j.arts@uu.nl
Behavioural Brain Research
|June 23, 2009
Abstract:
The present study investigated whether pigs are able to acquire a complex spatial holeboard discrimination task (4 of 16 holes baited) and whether mixing stress affects performance in this task. All pigs rapidly reduced the number of re-visits to baited holes (working memory) and to unbaited holes (reference memory). Mixing stress did not affect performance.

