Social tactics of pigs in a competitive foraging task: The 'informed forager' paradigm
Article Abstract:
The experimental study of individual social tactics in competitive foraging situations was extended to the domestic pig, who retain the foraging behavior of their wild ancestors. The study showed that pigs can successfully exploit the knowledge of others by changing foraging tactics.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Pigs shift too: Foraging strategies and spatial memory in the domestic pig
Article Abstract:
Foraging strategies and spatial memory was studied in the domestic pig.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Maternal social status and birth sex ratio in domestic pigs: an analysis of mechanisms
Article Abstract:
A study on the effect of social status of females to the birth sex ratio of their litters shows that there is no correlation between the two. The sex ratio is not influenced by adrenal glands activity in either high-ranking or low-ranking females. There was consistency in reproductive output across the four pregnancies studied, but there was no cross-pregnancy consistency in the sex-ratio.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Factors affecting white-winged, white-tipped, and mourning dove reproduction in Lower Rio Grande Valley. Bioenergetics of white-winged dove reproduction in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas
- Abstracts: Oxygen isotope evidence against bulk recycled sediment in the mantle sources of Pitcairn Island lavas. Oxygen-isotope evidence for recycled crust in the sources of mid-ocean-ridge basalts
- Abstracts: Have NASA's scientists been the victims of excessive expectations? NASA review leaves projects on launch pad
- Abstracts: Complete quantum teleportation using nuclear magnetic resonance. An algorithmic benchmark for quantum information processing
- Abstracts: Sex of opponent influences response to a potential status signal in house sparrows. Alternative mechanisms of nonindependent mate choice