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dc.contributor.author | Destrez, Alexandra | en |
dc.contributor.author | Deiss, Veronique | en |
dc.contributor.author | Belzung, Catherine | en |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, Caroline | en |
dc.contributor.author | Boissy, Alain | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-28T15:17:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 139(3-4), p. 233-241 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1872-9045 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0168-1591 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15972 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Recent studies emphasize the role of interactions between emotions and judgment of environment to better assess affective state in animals. Diazepam offers a way to pharmacologically manipulate the affective state. This drug is generally used to reduce negative affective states, mainly by reducing fearfulness. Here we investigated whether a reduction of fearfulness through a pharmacological approach could reduce pessimistic-like judgment in lambs. We tested the effects of diazepam (0.10 mg/kg), a benzodiazepine known for its anxiolytic properties in many species, in 5-months old female lambs submitted to two experiments: the first one to assess their fear related reactions (cortisol, cardiac and behavioural measures) to isolation and suddenness tests, and the second one to assess their putative judgment bias. In experiment 1, the lambs treated with diazepam were less frightened by isolation and suddenness than the control lambs injected with vehicle, which tended to confirm the anxiolytic effect of diazepam on sheep. In experiment 2, the lambs were first trained to perform a spatial location task to test for judgment bias in sheep. This task required a go/no-go response according to the location of a bucket in a pen, with one location being reinforced positively (with a feed reward) and the other negatively (with a fan forced blower). Once trained, lambs ('n' = 16) were exposed twice (10 min and 3 h after injections) to five consecutive bucket locations: the two learnt locations plus three unrewarded, ambiguous locations set between the learnt locations. Control lambs increased their latency to approach one of the ambiguous bucket locations ('P' < 0.05), while treated lambs maintained the same latency to approach this location. This difference may reflect a bias in judgment in relation to fearfulness: treated lambs seemed to display a more positive judgment of an ambiguous event than control lambs. Reduction of fearfulness may thus induce a more positive affective state but this requires further investigation, with additional studies comparing the efficacy of the cognitive bias approach to other measures of affective state. | en |
dc.language | en | en |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Applied Animal Behaviour Science | en |
dc.title | Does reduction of fearfulness tend to reduce pessimistic-like judgment in lambs? | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.applanim.2012.04.006 | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Humane Animal Treatment | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Animal Growth and Development | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Alexandra | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Veronique | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Catherine | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Caroline | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Alain | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 070207 Humane Animal Treatment | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 070202 Animal Growth and Development | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 830310 Sheep - Meat | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 830311 Sheep - Wool | en |
local.profile.school | School of Environmental and Rural Science | en |
local.profile.email | clee31@une.edu.au | en |
local.output.category | C1 | en |
local.record.place | au | en |
local.record.institution | University of New England | en |
local.identifier.epublicationsrecord | une-20141016-095451 | en |
local.publisher.place | Netherlands | en |
local.format.startpage | 233 | en |
local.format.endpage | 241 | en |
local.peerreviewed | Yes | en |
local.identifier.volume | 139 | en |
local.identifier.issue | 3-4 | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Destrez | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Deiss | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Belzung | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Lee | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Boissy | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:clee31 | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.identifier.unepublicationid | une:16209 | en |
local.identifier.handle | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15972 | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
local.title.maintitle | Does reduction of fearfulness tend to reduce pessimistic-like judgment in lambs? | en |
local.output.categorydescription | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | en |
local.search.author | Destrez, Alexandra | en |
local.search.author | Deiss, Veronique | en |
local.search.author | Belzung, Catherine | en |
local.search.author | Lee, Caroline | en |
local.search.author | Boissy, Alain | en |
local.uneassociation | Unknown | en |
local.year.published | 2012 | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 300306 Animal welfare | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 300301 Animal growth and development | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 100412 Sheep for meat | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 100413 Sheep for wool | en |
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