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Title:
Why do pigs root and in what will they root? A review on the exploratory behaviour of pigs in relation to environmental enrichment
Author(s): Merete Studnitz, Margit Bak Jensen, Lene Juul Pedersen
Publication Date: January 1, 2007
Reference: Applied Animal Behaviour Science 107 (2007) 183–197
Country: Denmark

Summary:

In this paper the effects of different materials on the behaviour of pigs are listed and the preferences of pigs for numerous different materials are compared. It was found that exploratory behaviour in pigs is best stimulated by materials that are complex, changeable, destructible, manipulable, and contain sparsely distributed edible parts.

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