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. 2015 Jul;28(7):1038–1043. doi: 10.5713/ajas.14.0907

Table 1.

Ethogram of behavioral categories and their respective definitions (adapted from Statham et al., 2011; Rhim, 2012)

Behavior Description
Inactive Motionless and sleeping
Chewing Chewing (not on another pig) with its head raised and away from the feeder
Locomotion Any movement including walking, running, scampering, and rolling
Pen exploration Sniffing, touching, sucking or chewing any object that is part of the pen
Drinking Drinking water or manipulating the drinker with or without ingestion of water
Feeding Head positioned in the feeder or chewing food displaced from the feeder
Excretion Defecating or urinating
Tail biting Having the tail of another pig in its mouth and biting or pulling hard enough to cause a reaction in the other pig
Belly nosing Repeated thrusting of snout into the belly of another pig
Fighting Head-thrusting, ramming, biting, or pushing another pig
Other social All other social interactions including mounting, head rubbing, and nosing parts of the body other than the belly
Other All other behaviors not listed above