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Insights into restlessness as a potential novel indicator of impaired welfare in bulls fattened for meat production

2026-03-31

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Restlessness is a symptom of chronic boredom in humans and a behavioural phenomenon anecdotally described as a concern in bulls raised for fattening purposes, but it has so far not been addressed in research. The two studies presented in this paper aimed to gain first insights into restlessness in bulls. We operationally defined restlessness by the number of transitions between behaviours in a given time period, a...

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Literature Corpus work: abdb9bfe-df1e-5a09-978c-6a62daea0211
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.29.715061

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