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- Title
INFLUÊNCIA DO ENRIQUECIMENTO AMBIENTAL NOS PADRÕES DE COMPORTAMENTOS SOCIAIS E ANORMAIS DE CABRAS EM CONFINAMENTO.
- Authors
Oliveira, Ana Paula Guedes; Costa, Weliton Menário; da Costa, Willian Moreira; de Almeida Nunes, Rafael; da Silva Dias, Natalia Caroliny; de Fátima Madella-Oliveira, Aparecida
- Abstract
Throughout the history of the animal domestication process, goats were removed from their natural environment and they were placed in an environment with impoverished stimuli. The problem is that because of the confinement, the animals fail to display behaviors typical of the species and they begin to develop abnormal behaviors. In an attempt to minimize these behaviors, it has become common to use a technique named environmental enrichment. The aim was to identify, analyze and describe the agonistic and abnormal social behaviors of confined goats with and without using environmental enrichments, relating them to weight gain. For study development, w e used 20 crossbred goats (Boer x Saanen), equally divided into two pens, where a group control was treated according to the normal routine of the farm (Trat 1) and another one, the enrichment group, was subjected to the technique of environmental enrichment (Trat 2). The two groups were then observed, making a total of 216 hours. It was found that the mean frequency of behaviours for each treatment differ, and that the group with the environmental enrichment animals exhibited lower frequency of agonistic social and abnormal behavior than the control group. It is therefore concluded that environmental enrichment positively influenced the abnormal and social behavior in the goats studied.
- Publication
Archives of Veterinary Science, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1517-784X
- Publication type
Article