The Emotional Lives of Dairy Cows

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Written By maryb
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Photo: Uberprutser, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license.Researchers investigated how dairy calves are affected by the emotional pain of separation from their mother and the physical pain of dehorning. The researchers found both types of pain can result in a negative cognitive bias similar to pessimism.Read the whole story on my Zoologic blog: The Emotional Lives of Dairy Cows.

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