Combining automated behaviour recognition and physiological data to characterize heat tolerance and animal welfare in growing pigs.

• Tác giả: David Beramice, Mathieu Bonneau, Laurent Dantec, Jean-Luc Gourdine, Johanna Guichard, Nausicaa Poullet
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 785.13 *Trios
• Thông tin xuất bản: England : Journal of thermal biology , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 496588

Tóm tắt

Estimating animal behaviour during heat stress (HS) is particularly insightful to monitor animal welfare but also to better understand how animals thermoregulate. The present study is a proof of concept combining computer vision to monitor animal behaviour, continuous monitoring of subcutaneous temperature and recording of ambient temperature, with the aim to study the link between behaviour and animal body temperature during HS. A total of 22 pigs were video-monitored from 8:00 to 18.00 under two contrasted conditions: HS corresponding to the tropical climate (between 20.3 °C and 27.9 °C) and Thermoneutral (TN) consisting of an indoor temperature-controlled room at 22 °C. Animal temperature (T