{"id":4524,"date":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"on-the-rewarding-nature-of-appetitive-feeding-behaviour-in-pigs-sus-scrofa-do-domesticated-pigs-contrafreeload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/on-the-rewarding-nature-of-appetitive-feeding-behaviour-in-pigs-sus-scrofa-do-domesticated-pigs-contrafreeload\/","title":{"rendered":"On the rewarding nature of appetitive feeding behaviour in pigs (Sus scrofa): Do domesticated pigs contrafreeload?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrafreeloading is the phenomenon that animals prefer to \u2018\u2018work\u2019\u2019 for food even though \u2018\u2018free\u2019\u2019 food is<br \/>\navailable nearby. In this study,we investigated whether pigs express contrafreeloading in a test situation where<br \/>\nthe searching, finding and consuming of food items resembles a natural foraging situation. For that purpose, we<br \/>\ninvestigated whether pigs prefer an environment with straw and hidden food rewards (chocolate raisins) to an<br \/>\nenvironment with straw, but without hidden food rewards and with food rewards \u2018\u2018freely\u2019\u2019 available in a trough. The results show that pigs express contrafreeloading when using a natural foraging task and they suggest that the reinforcing effects of anticipation, which occurs during natural foraging in the delays between searching and finding food, may contribute to the observed expression of contrafreeloading in pigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrafreeloading is the phenomenon that animals prefer to \u2018\u2018work\u2019\u2019 for food even though \u2018\u2018free\u2019\u2019 food is available nearby. In this study,we investigated whether pigs express contrafreeloading in a test situation where the searching, finding and consuming of food items resembles a natural foraging situation. For that purpose, we investigated whether pigs prefer an environment with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,640,10033,8163,19644,27280,6904,46,108,5643,20007,2771,2476,10859,14,33,6871,14980,24992,20911,1579,2481],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-animal","tag-arc","tag-chocolate","tag-dd","tag-environment","tag-fee","tag-feed","tag-feeding","tag-feeding-behaviour","tag-gh","tag-iron","tag-loading","tag-nat","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-pigs-foraging-feeding-appetitive-anticipation-reward-contrafreeloading-welfare","tag-search","tag-sow-hsps-piglets-weaning-growing","tag-t","tag-test","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}