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. 2015 Dec 3:2:69.
doi: 10.3389/fvets.2015.00069. eCollection 2015.

Olfaction: An Overlooked Sensory Modality in Applied Ethology and Animal Welfare

Birte L Nielsen  1 , Tadeusz Jezierski  2 , J Elizabeth Bolhuis  3 , Luisa Amo  4 , Frank Rosell  5 , Marije Oostindjer  6 , Janne W Christensen  7 , Dorothy McKeegan  8 , Deborah L Wells  9 , Peter Hepper  9
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Olfaction: An Overlooked Sensory Modality in Applied Ethology and Animal Welfare

Birte L Nielsen et al. Front Vet Sci. .
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Keywords: behavior; chemoreception; disease; feeding; housing; odors; reproduction; stress.

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Five areas (horizontal bars), where olfaction and odors influence the behavior and welfare of animals, kept in different human environments (vertical gray bars). Behavioral and olfactory concepts involved are listed in the red box on the left.
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