The neonatal period is the most vulnerable time in the life of a lamb, with almost half of all
pre-weaning mortalities occurring on the day of birth. The welfare challenges faced by the …

To use behaviours as indicators of stress it is important to understand their underlying
causation. For a prey animal in the wild, such as a sheep, behavioural responses have …

We assessed social, spatial (using grids of 100× 100, 200× 200 and 500× 500m) and habitat
(vegetation) segregation between sex and age classes in two Alpine ibex populations (Sous …

This investigation examined whether pigs form long-term preferential associations or
'friendships' and factors that may influence the formation of these relationships. Thirty-three …

Significant breed differences in grazing, activity, social and other affiliative behaviours are
known to exist in sheep. The roles of maternal and offspring genotype in determining the …

We investigated the effects of activity, group size and sex composition on the cohesion of
merino sheep (Ovis aries) groups. Mixed-sex (50% of each sex) and single-sex groups of 2 …

We studied seasonal habitat use of female, mixed-sex and male groups in a free-ranging
mouflon (Ovis gmelini) population. The three group types differed in the use of the five …

Sexual segregation occurs widely in ungulates, and four principal hypotheses (predation,
forage quality, social preferences and activity patterning) have been suggested as possible …

Sexual segregation reported in many wild ruminants is generally assumed to result from
either different habitat choices by adult males and females or 'social factors'. In this …

The aim of the current study was to investigate the social relationships between individual
sheep, and factors that influence this, through the novel application of the statistical multiple …