Porcine behavior study: an ethological view on swine production
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pig production, ethology, animal welfareAbstract
The comprehension of behavior allows to improve the animal handling used in production and optimize their welfare. The discipline of the biological sciences that addresses this issue is ethology. Based on the theory of evolution, it emphasizes four types of explanations, known as the “four questions of Tinbergen”. Are these four approaches useful for the applicated ethology in swine production? Can research on ethology contribute to better breeding conditions? Fundamentally, are they relevant for animal’s welfare? Today, some practices performed in an “intuitive” or “empirical” way can be identified as “the silent help” in which ethology has contributed in each productive stage since the beginning of the use of the domestic animals breeding, particularly when it turns into an intensive manner. This silent help generated a combination of specific knowledge which paradoxically do not relate with this discipline. It is proposed here by giving the voice to this help, identifying the different ethologist developments in swine production.
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Fraser D, Krames DL, Pajor EA, Weary DM. 1995. Conflict and cooperation: sociobiological principles and the behaviour of pigs. Applied Animal Behavior Science. 44:13957. doi: 10.1016/01681591(95)006105
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Fraser D, Thompson BK. 1991. Armed sibling rivalry among suckling piglets. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 29:915.
Grandin T. 1980. Livestock behavior as related to handling facility design. International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems. 1:3352.
Hartsock TG, Graves HB. 1976. Neonatal behavior and nutritionrelated mortality in domestic swine. Journal of Animal Science. 42(1):23541.
Hogan JA. 2015. A framework for the study of behavior. Behavioral Processes. 117:10513. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.05.003
Hohenshell LM, Minick JA, Lay Jr DC, Ford SP. 1996. Maternal behavior potentially affecting offspring survivability: a comparison between Meishan and Yorkshire X Landrace (YL) sows. Swine Research Report. IOWA State University. Disponible en: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/swinereports [Consultado 01/01/2017].
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Hughes B, Duncan I. 1988. The notion of ethological 'need', models of motivation and animal welfare. Animal Behavior. 36:1696707. doi: 10.1016/S00033472(88)801106
Illman G, Pokorná Z, Spinka M. 2007. Allosuckling in domestic pigs: teat acquisition strategy and consequences. Applied Animal Behavior Science. 106:2638. doi: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.06.012
Jensen P. 1986. Observation of maternal behaviour of freeranging domestic pigs. Applied Animal Behavior Science. 16:13142. doi: 10.1016/01681591(86)90105X
Jensen P. 1993. Nest building in domestic sows: the sole of external estimuli. Animal Behavior. 45(2):3518.
Jensen, P. Comportamiento del cerdo. 2004. Etología de los animales domésticos. Zaragoza, España. Jensen (Editor), Editorial Acribia, pp. 16884.
Jensen P, Toates F. 1993. Who needs 'behavioural needs'? Motivational aspects of the needs of animals. Applied Animal Behavior Science. 37:16181. doi: 10.1016/01681591(93)901082
Lakatos I. 1983."La metodología de los programas de investigación científica". Madrid. Alianza Editorial.
Larson G. 2005. Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centers of pig domestication. Science. 307:1618. doi: 10.1126/science.1106927
Lorenz K. 1937. The companion in the bird’s world. The Auk. 54:24573.
Lorenz K. 1974. Etología comparada. El comportamiento instintivo en la filogenia. En: Biología del comportamiento. Ciudad de México; Siglo XXI Editores, pp. 718.
Lorenz, Konrad. 1995. La otra cara del espejo. Plaza & Janes.
MeunierSalaün MC, Gort F, Prunier A, Schouten WPG. 1991. Behavioral patterns and progesterone, cortisol and prolactin levels around parturition in European (Large White) and Chinese (Meishan) sows. Applied Animal Behavior. Science. 31:4359. doi: 10.1016/01681591(91)90152N
Orihuela A, Solano JJ. 1995. Managing "teat order" in suckling pigs (Sus scrofa domestica). Applied Animal Behavior Science. 46:12530. doi: 10.1016/01681591(95)006397
Redivatti M. 2009. Caracterización de cerdos criollos del nordeste argentino. Tesis doctoral, Universidad de Córdoba, España.
Skinner B. 1974. Sobre el conductismo. Título del original: About behaviourism. Publicado por Alfred A Knopf, New York. USA· Traducción Fernando Barrera. Ed PlanetaDe Agostini Mexico DF.
Spinka M, Algers B. 1995. Functional view on udder massage after milk letdown in pigs. Applied Animal Behavior Science. 43:197212. doi: 10.1016/01681591(95)00560F
Stamps J. 2003. Behavioral processes affecting development: Tinbergen's fourth question comes of age. Animal Behavior. 66(1):113. doi: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2180
Tinbergen N. 1939. On the analysis of social organization among vertebrates, with special references to birds. The American Naturalist. 21:21034.
Tinbergen N. 1963. “On aims and methods of ethology.” Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie. 20:41033.
Tinbergen N. 1981. El estudio del instinto. 10° edición. Ciudad de México; Siglo XXI editores.
Thorpe WH. 1965. The assessmentt of pain and distress in animals. En: Report of the Technical Committee to enquire into de welfare of animals kept under intensive livestock systems (F.W.R. Brambell). HMSO, London. UK.
Thorpe WH. 1982. Breve historia de la etología. Vol 902. Madrid, España; Alianza Editorial.
Wiepkema PR. Behavioral aspects of stress. En: 1987. Wiepkema PR; van Adrichem PWM (Editors). Biology of stress in farm animals: an integrative approach. Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht. 11333.
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Arroyo, P., Ferrari, H. R., & Antonini, A. G. (2018). Porcine behavior study: an ethological view on swine production. Analecta Veterinary, 38(1), 23–32. https://doi.org/10.24215/15142590e022
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