Within-session decreases in lever pressing responses in pigs under feeding scheme of livestock industry

  • UENO RYOUSEI
    Farm of Ishikawa Prefectural University Graduate School of Socio-Environmental Studies of Kanazawa University
  • TANIUCHI TOHRU
    Faculty of Letters of Kanazawa University

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  • 産業的な飼育条件下におけるブタのレバー押し反応のセッション内減少
  • サンギョウテキ ナ シイク ジョウケン カ ニ オケル ブタ ノ レバー オシ ハンノウ ノ セッション ナイ ゲンショウ

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The present study examined within-session decreases in lever pressing responses in domestic pigs bred under the ordinary feeding scheme of the livestock industry. Two castrated male pigs were trained to obtain 3.4-g food pellets by lever pressing responses. Under the continuous reinforcement schedule in 90-min sessions, pigs' response rates were completely steady for the first 30 min (about 500 pellets) and then gradually decreased. The decrease of response rates was equally well described as a linear function of cumulative food intake and that of passed time.

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