Browsing by Author "Figueroa, Jaime"
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Luna, Daniela; González, Catalina; Byrd, Christopher J.; Palomo Bartolotti, Rocío María Paz; Huenul, Elizabeth; Figueroa, Jaime (MDPI, 2021)The human-animal relationship is an important component of farm animal welfare. Previous studies have shown that allowing animals to observe the gentle handling of a conspecific reduces fear and increases their affinity ...
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Figueroa, Jaime; Valenzuela Venegas, Carolina Paz; Guzmán Pino, Sergio Alejandro (MDPI, 2022)Pigs display an innate preference for sweet taste compounds such as sucrose. However, the influence of sucrose supplementation into maternal diets has not been examined in pigs. We tested the hypothesis that sucrose inclusion ...
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Luna, Daniela; González, Catalina; Byrd, Christopher J.; Palomo Bartolotti, Rocío María Paz; Huenul, Elizabeth; Figueroa, Jaime (MDPI, 2021)In this study, we addressed the social attentiveness, as well as the phenomenon of social facilitation and inhibition in the context of a positive human–pig relationship. Specifically, we investigated whether the social ...