Wetenschap - 1 januari 1970
Loneliness is bad for all pigs
Loneliness is bad for all pigs
PhD candidate Arïella Karman discovered that even stress-resistant pigs do
not react well to being shut up alone in individual sties. This emerged
from her recordings of the activity of stress hormones in pigs’ brains.
“First we use the ‘back test’ to measure how pigs react to stress,