Social housing improves dairy calves' performance in two cognitive tests.

Early social housing is known to benefit cognitive development in laboratory animals. Pre-weaned dairy calves are typically separated from their dam immediately after birth and housed alone, but no work to date has addressed the effect of individual housing on cognitive performance of these animals....

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Main Authors: Charlotte Gaillard, Rebecca K Meagher, Marina A G von Keyserlingk, Daniel M Weary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3935992?pdf=render