ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Talking to Cows: Reactions to Different Auditory Stimuli During Gentle Human-Animal Interactions.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Measuring minds: Understanding the mental states of dairy cattle in different management conditions.JDS communications · 2025Article
- On your terms or mine: pigs' response to imposed gentle tactile contact vs. free form interaction with a familiar human.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Affective Implications of Human-Animal Relationship on Pig Welfare: Integrating Non-Linear Heart Rate Variability Measures.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Human animal relationships inFrontiers in veterinary science · 2024Review
- Beef Cattle Preference and Usage of Environmental Enrichments Provided Simultaneously in a Pasture-Based Environment.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Automated Applications of Acoustics for Stored Product Insect Detection, Monitoring, and Management.Insects · 2021Article
- The Power of a Positive Human-Animal Relationship for Animal Welfare.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Review
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The quality of the animal-human relationship and, consequently, the welfare of animals can be improved by gentle interactions such as stroking and talking. The perception of different stimuli during these interactions likely plays a key role in their emotional experience, but studies are scarce. During experiments, the standardization of verbal stimuli could be increased by using a recording. However, the use of a playback might influence the perception differently than "live" talking, which is closer to on-farm practice. Thus, we compared heifers' (
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