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{"title":"Rattling the cage: Behaviour and resource use of mice in laboratory and pet cages","authors":"Michelle Gygax ,&nbsp;Milena Sanches Fortes ,&nbsp;Bernhard Voelkl ,&nbsp;Hanno Würbel ,&nbsp;Janja Novak","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106381","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Conventional housing for laboratory mice limits the expression of species-specific behaviours and restricts the control over their environment, thus failing to guarantee the animals’ welfare. To better understand the behaviour and resource use of laboratory mice, we housed mice (n = 64) of two common laboratory strains (C57BL/6 and Swiss), both sexes and two group sizes (3 and 5) in large extensively enriched pet cages and conventional laboratory cages, respectively, and assessed their behaviour, resource use, and space use under these different housing conditions. Mice in pet cages showed more running, mostly on the running disc, and other locomotor behaviour, but also spent much time hidden in deep bedding, while mice in conventional laboratory cages climbed more on the cage grid, reared more and exhibited more stereotypic behaviour. Our findings emphasize the significance of a proper substrate for shelter, as well as other resources that facilitate species-specific behaviour.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"278 ","pages":"Article 106381"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159124002296/pdfft?md5=298ed71241a72736653b9e08bfc99886&pid=1-s2.0-S0168159124002296-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142117529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Don’t rush a submission","authors":"Irene Camerlink,&nbsp;Péter Pongrácz","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"278 ","pages":"Article 106380"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Are smelly toys more fun? Shelter dogs’ preferences for toys, scents, and scented toys","authors":"Skyler Howard,&nbsp;Lisa M. Gunter,&nbsp;Erica N. Feuerbacher","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106383","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106383","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As dogs reside in shelters awaiting adoption, it is critical that they remain behaviorally healthy. A variety of enrichment strategies improve the welfare of shelter dogs, including object (usually in the form of toys) and scent enrichment. However, for these interventions to be enriching, dogs must engage with the items and their welfare be positively affected. Thus, by identifying dogs’ preferences, shelters can improve the function of their enrichment. Using a 15 min free operant preference assessment, an assessment in which the subject is given free access to a variety of items and the duration of their engagement with each item is recorded, we investigated 34 shelter dogs’ preferences for four different toys: a stuffed toy, tennis ball, Nylabone, and flying disc. We also investigated dog’ preferences for four scents: hotdog, peppermint, duck, and an unfamiliar dog. Finally, we applied the dog’s preferred scent to their most and least preferred toys to investigate whether adding their preferred scent would increase the amount of time they engaged with those items compared to unscented duplicates. During the toy preference assessment, we observed that dogs, on average, only interacted with toys 3.35 % of the 15 min session. However, we found that dogs engaged over eight times longer with the stuffed toy as compared to all other toys, <em>F</em> (1, 134) = 64.40, <em>p</em> &lt;.001. There was a marginal effect of type during the scent assessment, <em>F</em> (3, 132) = 2.50, <em>p</em> =.062, but post hoc comparisons were not significant. When we applied each dog’s preferred scent to their most and least preferred toys, we found statistically significant main effects for preference, <em>F</em> (1, 132) = 54.95, <em>p</em> &lt;.001, and scent, <em>F</em> (1, 132) = 7.16, <em>p</em> =.008, and a significant preference-by-scent interaction, <em>F</em> (1, 132) = 4.66, <em>p</em> =.033. The addition of scent increased engagement with both toys, such that dogs spent 4.2 and 13.7 times more seconds with their most and least preferred toys, respectively. In addition to our results aligning with prior research demonstrating that dogs prefer soft versus hard toys, these findings suggest that combining objects and scents can increase dogs’ engagement with enrichment and may be especially impactful when providing shelter dogs with less preferred objects, such as hard toys.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"278 ","pages":"Article 106383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142097571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cross-seasonal and diurnal variation in physical contact between sub-adult pigs","authors":"Piero Seddaiu ,&nbsp;Simon P. Turner ,&nbsp;Irene Camerlink","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106379","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106379","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social touch is an important aspect of social relationships and has a major influence on development and health. However, in many species the occurrence and function of social touch is unknown. Pigs have frequent physical contact but this behaviour is largely unexplored. The aim of this study was to investigate the undisturbed variation in physical contact between pigs, and to assess diurnal and seasonal influences. A stable group of ten Puławska sub-adult female pigs was observed for 406 h across four seasons during the day and night, by continuous observations on an individual level (406 h / pig). They were housed indoors (112 m² pen) on straw bedding. The ethogram distinguished the amount of surface contact between pigs when lying, the orientation to others, social nosing, other non-agonistic social behaviour and agonistic behaviours. Resting location within the pen was recorded 48 times per pig, and dominance relationships were calculated from agonistic interactions. Data were analysed with mixed models accounting for repeated observations. Pigs spent on average 40 % of their time lying in body contact, most often lying with their extremities in contact (71 %), followed by lying in partial body contact (16 %) or full body contact (13 %) and were frequently nosing the head and body of others. The duration of lying in any type of contact, as well as agonistic behaviour, was influenced by season, with the longest durations in autumn. In summer, the duration of partial body contact was lowest, but full body contact was unaffected by season. Nosing behaviour remained constant throughout the year. Pigs lay in contact more during the night, while showing more social behaviours during the day. Pigs mostly lay in nonparallel orientation or head-to-head, but clearly least in the head-to-tail orientation. Season influenced the frequency of lying head-to-head and head-to-tail, but not lying nonparallel. The coefficient of variation of the lying location was influenced by season. Allo-grooming, mounting, and nudging were shown infrequently and mostly by specific individuals. In conclusion, when at a large space allowance, pigs spend nearly half of their time in body contact, even during the higher temperatures in summer. This shows that social touch, including affiliative behaviour, has an important role in pigs’ social life, and remains largely unaffected by external influences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"278 ","pages":"Article 106379"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142050406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An enclosure quality ranking framework for terrestrial animals in captivity","authors":"Alison M. Flanagan ,&nbsp;Bryce Masuda ,&nbsp;Koa Grabar ,&nbsp;Lisa P. Barrett ,&nbsp;Ronald R. Swaisgood","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106378","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106378","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a burgeoning interest in measuring and improving animal welfare in captive settings. Recent work has emphasized how enclosure design elements directly impact animal welfare (e.g., from health, behavioral, and reproductive standpoints). Yet, there is no published systematic way for practitioners to quantitatively rank enclosure quality. To address this critical need, we developed a flexible enclosure quality ranking framework for terrestrial animals in captivity. Our enclosure framework comprises 11 broadly applicable and measurable components of enclosure design that have relevance to animal welfare: Display, Size, Shelter, Materials, Environment, Climate, Viewshed, Social, People, Other, and Complexity. Each of these components relates to one or more of the “Five Freedoms” and “Opportunities to Thrive”. In addition to developing the enclosure quality ranking framework, we provide an example of how to apply the framework, and offer suggestions on how to conduct empirical analyses with the ranking data derived from our framework. Once applied, our framework can be used to generate measurable outcomes that practitioners can use to make informed decisions, leading to optimal animal welfare.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"278 ","pages":"Article 106378"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159124002260/pdfft?md5=cc3faa495b9a101d4b1529521e7a5fc6&pid=1-s2.0-S0168159124002260-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142089691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of preferential associations on the reproductive performance of group-housed sows","authors":"Sarah L. Jowett ,&nbsp;Zoe E. Barker ,&nbsp;Jonathan R. Amory","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106376","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106376","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The investigation of social bonds as a measure to improve reproduction in farmed species is an underrepresented research area. This study investigated the effects of preferential associations between group housed sows (average herd size, <em>n</em> = 59) on stillborn and crushed piglet numbers. Preferential associations were described as resting within &lt; 1 m of a conspecific in which the proximity was tolerated &gt; 60 s. The study occurred over 63 consecutive days, broken down into three 21-day periods referred to as cycles. The 21-day cycles represent the time between reintegrating events. Seven days per cycle were selected for observations providing 63 h of footage covering the functional areas of the barn. Production data were taken from one farrowing that occurred after a sow had been transferred from the barn to the farrowing house during the study period. For group-level analysis, the sows were categorised as socially prominent or non-socially prominent. Social prominence is defined as an individual that engages in significantly higher levels of interactions than their sub-group conspecifics. The subgroups were determined by our previous work that identified assortment by social connectivity within the same study herd. Each subgroup was defined as a <em>k</em>-core, in which the <em>k</em>-value represents the level of connectivity of those in the group (i.e., subgroup K1 means sows are connecting with at least one other conspecific). For individual-level analysis, sows were categorised as a sow with stillborn (at least one stillborn piglet) or a sow without stillborn (no stillborn piglets) and as a crushing sow (at least one crushed piglet) or a non-crushing sow (no crushed piglets). Degree centrality was applied to determine the number of interactions that individuals initiated and received. Results showed no overall effects of social prominence on live-born piglets (<em>p</em> = 0.436). Socially prominent sows demonstrated a lower mean rate of stillborn than non-socially prominent sows. Sows with stillborn had significantly lower degree centrality than sows without stillborn (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.05). The numbers of crushed piglets between socially prominent and non-socially prominent sows were variable with crushing sows demonstrating significantly higher degree centrality than non-crushing sows (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.05). Overall, the evidence does not provide a clear relationship between social prominence during gestation and the reproductive outputs of sows. Therefore, further work is required to validate the effects of social position in affiliative networks on the production indices of farmed pigs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"278 ","pages":"Article 106376"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141935189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acoustic sensors to detect the rate of cow vocalization in a complex farm environment","authors":"Paul.R. Shorten,&nbsp;Laura.B. Hunter","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106377","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106377","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Acoustic technologies provide a method to investigate cow vocalization. This study demonstrated that collar attached acoustic sensors can determine vocalization from continuous acoustic recordings of cows under grazing conditions. In this study a total of 4843 vocalizations from 10 cows were observed over 3 days. Algorithms were developed to differentiate cow vocalization from other farm noises and the F1-statistic for the vocalization classification model was 95% for the test dataset. Models for the rate of vocalization per cow (R² = 0.99), average vocalization duration per cow (R² = 0.83), and the coefficient of variation (CV) of duration of vocalization per cow (R² = 0.73) in the validation dataset demonstrate that it is feasible to determine vocalization traits that provide information on the state of the animal. There was also significant between-cow variation in the vocalization traits examined in this study, with a rate of vocalization per cow that ranged from 20 to 584 events day^-1, an average duration of vocalization per cow that ranged from 1.0 to 1.4<!--> <!-->s, a CV of duration of vocalization per cow that ranged from 0.28 to 0.42. The transition probabilities between vocalization type (closed, mixed, open mouth) were also calculated for each cow and there was a 1.3 to 14-fold between-cow variation in the transition probabilities. The total number of vocalizations per hour interval was highly variable and ranged from zero to 250 vocalizations, depending on cow and time of day. The cows largely vocalized at similar times of the day, although we demonstrated that the technology could identify cows that differ in their pattern of vocalization relative to the herd and relative to their vocalization patterns on previous days. These models can be used to investigate the role of management and environmental factors on cow vocalization, and to develop technologies that respond to cow vocalization behaviour.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"278 ","pages":"Article 106377"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141935190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiple factors shape social contacts in dairy cows","authors":"H. Marina ,&nbsp;P.P. Nielsen ,&nbsp;W.F. Fikse ,&nbsp;L. Rönnegård","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106366","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106366","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cattle develop preferential relationships with other individuals in the herd. These social interactions between individuals have a significant impact on both animal welfare and production. Given the relevance of social behaviour in dairy cattle, scientific studies have focused on understanding social interactions among cattle. These may also be influenced by individual area preferences, particularly when animals are housed in confined spaces. Therefore, investigating the relationship between individual area preferences and social interactions is essential for understanding social behaviour in dairy cattle. Real-time location systems provide the opportunity to monitor individual area preferences and social contacts at the same time. This study aims to assess the impact of dairy cows' area preferences on their daily social contacts and to determine the potential implications of overlooking individual area preferences in social behaviour studies. The individual position of the lactating cows was automatically collected once per second for two months on a Swedish commercial farm housing dairy cows inside a free-stall barn. The location data of 243 lactating cows was used to construct the social networks and to estimate the similarity of the area utilisation distributions between these individuals. The effect of utilisation distribution similarity in social networks was investigated by applying separable temporal exponential random graph mixed models. The role of different cow characteristics in the similarity of the utilisation distributions was assessed through a linear mixed model. Our analyses stressed the importance of similarity of area preference, parity, kindergarten effect, and filial relatedness in shaping daily social contacts in dairy cattle. The kindergarten effect refers to the effect on cow behaviour of being grouped together in the early stages of their lives. Similarity of area preference was influenced by the kindergarten effect and relatedness by pedigree, which favoured interactions between these individuals. The described approach allowed to disassociate the area preference from the social contacts between cows, providing more accurate results of the importance of the cow’s characteristics on their social behaviour.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"278 ","pages":"Article 106366"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159124002144/pdfft?md5=f5c85de9f26dd74ab34889045b983e81&pid=1-s2.0-S0168159124002144-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141935196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationships between boldness and fecal steroid hormone levels in captive alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) in China","authors":"Wei Huang ,&nbsp;Xiaolong Wang ,&nbsp;Xin Zhou ,&nbsp;Jiayi Wu ,&nbsp;Xiaoping Lu ,&nbsp;Vasili Shakun ,&nbsp;Irena Solovej ,&nbsp;Yong Li ,&nbsp;Mi Zhou ,&nbsp;Xiuxiang Meng","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106367","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106367","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Animals adapt to environmental changes through behavioral and physiological regulation, and there are individual differences in their ability to adapt to the environment, which are associated with individual personality. Boldness is a fundamental axis of animal personality, characterizing an animal's response to unfamiliar environments and threats. From June 1 to July 28, 2023, a personality assessment experiment utilizing a novel stimulus test with an unfamiliar human was conducted on 39 captive alpine musk deer (<em>Moschus chrysogaster</em>) at the Zhuanglang Musk Farm in Gansu Province, China. We recorded avoidance reaction indicators of musk deer in the presence of an unfamiliar human, and measured the level of the musk deer's boldness, influencing factors, and the relationships with fecal steroid hormone levels. Based on cluster analysis, 39 captive musk deer could be divided into bold (boldness score, BSS = 0.994 ± 0.008, n = 3) and shy groups (BSS = 0.327 ± 0.145, n = 36) and the average BSS in 39 musk deer was 0.378 ± 0.228. Factors such as age, sex, and density of enclosures did not have a significant effect on the boldness of musk deer. There was a significant negative correlation between the musk deer's boldness and the level of fecal cortisol metabolites. However, the correlations between boldness and testosterone levels in males and estradiol levels in females were not significant. Based on the results of our study, in the practice of musk deer farming, the measurement of the boldness can help predict the individual's adaptation to environmental stress, and it can also provide a new research perspective for the study of the boldness of solitary animals that are forced to live in groups.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"278 ","pages":"Article 106367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141935212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of simulated motion frequency related to road quality on the welfare and recovery of transported largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)","authors":"Yifei Yang ,&nbsp;Edward Narayan ,&nbsp;Clive J.C. Phillips ,&nbsp;Sonia Rey Planellas ,&nbsp;Lu Zheng ,&nbsp;Xiaofang Ruan ,&nbsp;Arnaud Fabrice Tegomo ,&nbsp;Hao-Yu Shih ,&nbsp;Qingjun Shao ,&nbsp;Kris Descovich","doi":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106342","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106342","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Farmed fish are commonly transported between various facilities by road vehicles, resulting in inevitable exposure to uncontrolled and oscillatory movements, likely exacerbated by poor road conditions. The effect of road quality on livestock has been studied during live transport, but research into the impact of motion has been rarely examined with fish. This study investigated the effects of different motion frequencies related to road quality on the welfare and recovery of largemouth bass (<em>Micropterus salmoides</em>). Three motion frequencies were examined in this study using a non-transported control, a simulated “rough” transport treatment, and a simulated “smooth” transport treatment. Live transport was carried out for 3 h using a motion simulation platform with a movement frequency of 1.0 and 1.8 Hz for the smooth and rough treatment, respectively. Control fish were kept in static tanks for the same duration to obtain basal physiology, behaviour, and flesh quality. Water parameters were measured before and immediately after simulated transport in all groups. Behavioural, physiological, and muscle parameters were measured before simulated transport, as well as 0 h and 24 h post-transport. Total ammonia nitrogen levels increased in all treatments over time (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.001), with significantly higher values observed in transported groups. Non-transported fish displayed increased biting (<em>p</em> = 0.025), chasing (<em>p</em> = 0.010), and threatening (<em>p</em> = 0.003) behaviour over time, suggesting potential fasting and confinement stress. During the post-transport period, a significant main effect of treatment and timepoint on freezing and thigmotaxis behaviour was found, with an increase in these behaviours over time and significantly higher levels between control and smooth transported groups. Nevertheless, aggressive behaviours were affected only by timepoint, with an increase observed between 0 h and 24 h post-transport. Neither plasma biochemical indicators nor flesh quality differed between treatments, while a significant effect of timepoint was found for plasma glucose (<em>p</em> = 0.045), <em>p</em>lasma lactate (<em>p</em> = 0.021), and muscle pH (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.001). Our study consequently did not find rough transport to impact fish physiology and flesh quality more than smooth transport, but behavioural results suggest there was a strong combined effect of fasting, exposure to a novel environment, and confinement over time. Future research would be valuable to study these effects on the welfare of transported bass, allowing for a longer recovery time and the use of potential mitigation options such as environmental enrichment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8222,"journal":{"name":"Applied Animal Behaviour Science","volume":"277 ","pages":"Article 106342"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159124001904/pdfft?md5=64a0eaae939462e8c93ba7d1e06e55e9&pid=1-s2.0-S0168159124001904-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141689388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}