Table 2.
Mean (± SD) percentages of behavioural occurrences in rabbits by human-animal relationship treatment (HAR: H for treatment by human and N for no treatment by human) and living environment (E: SPL for simple and CPX for complex) before and after treatment. P-values were obtained using Generalised linear mixed models (ANOVA test) on raw data. Means with different superscripts in the same row differ significantly at an alpha value of 0.05
| Living environment (E) | SPL | CPX | P-values | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human-animal relationship (HAR) | H | N | H | N | HAR | E | HAR × E |
| Before HAR treatment (age 48 days) | |||||||
| Rearing toward human | 0.4 (± 0.5) | 0.1 (± 0.3) | 0.0 (± 0.0) | 0.6 (± 1.0) | 0.44 | 0.35 | 0.99 |
| Approaching human | 9.7 (± 3.6) | 7.7 (± 1.5) | 8.2 (± 3.4) | 7.3 (± 2.0) | 0.17 | 0.40 | 0.65 |
| Watching human | 14.0 (± 5.3) | 12.1 (± 3.5) | 10.8 (± 3.8) | 8.0 (± 3.9) | 0.58 | 0.41 | 0.82 |
| In contact with human | 2.2 (± 2.3) | 3.1 (± 2.0) | 0.8 (± 0.9) | 2.1 (± 1.9) | 0.23 | 0.22 | 0.60 |
| Nibbling, sniffing shoes | 0.4 (± 0.6) | 0.2 (± 0.6) | 1.4 (± 3.3) | 2.3 (± 0.7) | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 |
| Nibbling, sniffing clothes | 7.4 (± 5.3) | 11.9 (± 4.7) | 8.5 (± 6.2) | 7.4 (± 4.4) | 0.53 | 0.55 | 0.48 |
| Moving away from human | 3.2 (± 1.7) | 3.2 (± 0.9) | 3.4 (± 1.8) | 3.9 (± 1.1) | 0.80 | 0.77 | 0.87 |
| Other activity | 62.3 (± 11.6) | 61.6 (± 4.9) | 66.9 (± 10.2) | 68.3 (± 6.8) | 0.94 | 0.79 | 0.93 |
| After HAR treatment (age 68 days) | |||||||
| Rearing toward human | 1.4 (± 1.6) | 0.1 (± 0.3) | 0.5 (± 0.8) | 0.0 (± 0.0) | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 |
| Approaching human* | 10.4 (± 5.7)ac | 6.4 (± 1.3)b | 11.9 (± 3.3)a | 6.1 (± 1.6)bc | < 0.05 | 0.51 | 0.71 |
| Watching human | 4.4 (± 3.1) | 9.1 (± 3.3) | 6.4 (± 3.5) | 17.6 (± 14.5) | 0.09 | 0.60 | 0.91 |
| In contact with human* | 5.5 (± 5.2)a | 0.5 (± 0.9)a | 18.1 (± 14.5)b | 0.9 (± 1.6)a | < 0.05 | < 0.05 | 0.44 |
| Nibbling, sniffing shoes | 3.0 (± 4.2) | 10.5 (± 4.7) | 3.6 (± 3.3) | 3.3 (± 3.9) | 0.06 | 0.16 | 0.13 |
| Nibbling, sniffing clothes | 10.5 (± 7.8) | 10.2 (± 4.6) | 8.1 (± 6.9) | 5.0 (± 2.4) | 0.97 | 0.41 | 0.81 |
| Moving away from human | 0.1 (± 0.3) | 1.3 (± 1.3) | 0.6 (± 0.6) | 2.3 (± 1.7) | 0.14 | 0.46 | 0.99 |
| Other activity | 64.7 (± 13.1) | 61.7 (± 8.7) | 50.8 (± 17.9) | 64.7 (± 18.3) | 0.81 | 0.76 | 0.74 |