Welfare implication of measuring heart rate and heart rate variability in dairy cattle: literature review and conclusions for future research
Heart rate (HR) measurements have been used to determine stress in livestock species since the beginning of the 1970s. However, according to the latest studies in veterinary and behaviour–physiological sciences, heart rate variability (HRV) proved to be more precise for studying the activity of the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-01-01
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Series: | Animal |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731113002140 |