Conceptual analysis demonstrates the broad utility of livestock in comparative cognition research, highlighting opportunities to improve biomedical discovery and animal welfare assessment.
The future of comparative cognition should incorporate more studies that use livestock species (i.e., cattle, sheep, goat, swine and chicken models).Livestock can be considered a dual-purpose model, with the potential to increase the efficiency of comparative biomedical, psychological, and agricultural research.This increase would also enhance efforts in animal welfare science by targeting more precise and objective methods to evaluate affective states of animals using cognitive methods.
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Kristina Horback (2024) studied this question.
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