The role of ‘boar-component’ stimuli in courtship and copulatory behaviour in pigs
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- pigs
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972)
- Vol. 1984, 83
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0308229600014409
Abstract
Courtship behaviour in pigs has been extensively studied in recent years, and it is now clear that boar-originating cues are important in eliciting both proceptive and receptive behaviour in the female. What is less clearly understood is the pattern of development of the ‘boar-component’ stimuli in the young male. There are suggestions in the literature that both olfactory and auditory cues may be sub-optimal or even absent in the early post-pubertal boar, these possibly influencing his stimulatory value and hence mating efficiency. Thus, the present study was designed to evaluate the stimulatory value of young boars and to relate this to their mating performance.Keywords
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