ArticlePloS one2020
Social approach and place aversion in relation to conspecific pain in dairy calves.
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- Early pain experiences in dairy calves on pain sensitivity later in life.JDS communications · 2024Article
- Calves peak-end memory of pain.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Familiarity, age, weaning and health status impact social proximity networks in dairy calves.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Caring animals and the ways we wrong them.Biology & philosophy · 2023Article
- Indication of social buffering in disbudded calves.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Caring animals and care ethics.Biology & philosophy · 2022Article
- Researching Human-Cattle Interaction on Rangelands: Challenges and Potential Solutions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
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Abstract
Despite scientific interest in animal empathy, and growing public concern for farm animal welfare, the empathic abilities of farm animals remain under researched. In this study, we investigated empathic responses of young Holstein dairy calves to conspecifics recovering from hot-iron disbudding, a painful procedure common on dairy farms. A combination of social approach and place conditioning was used. First, 'observer' calves witnessed two 'demonstrator' calves recover from either a painful procedure (hot-iron disbudding and sedation) or a sham procedure (sedation alone) in distinct pens. Observer calves spent more time in proximity and paid more attention to calves recovering from the painful procedure compared to sham calves (proximity: 59.6 ± 4.3%; attention: 54.3 ± 1.5%). Observers were then tested for conditioned place aversion (in the absence of demonstrators) at 48h, 72h and 96h after the second demonstration; observers tended to avoid the pen associated with conspecific pain during the second of the three tests, spending 34.8 ± 9.6% of their time in this pen. No strong evidence of pain empathy was found, but our tentative results encourage further research on empathy in animals.
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