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/ Home / 2020 / May / 07 / Moo-dy Cows: In new research, Professor Marina von Keyserlingk finds dairy cattle undergo personality changes during puberty

Moo-dy Cows: In new research, Professor Marina von Keyserlingk finds dairy cattle undergo personality changes during puberty

Got a moody teenager? Cows can relate! While cattle’s personality traits are distinct and consistent at a young age and during adulthood, that isn’t the case during puberty.

Researchers from the Animal Welfare Program in UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems conducted the long-term study to understand the development and stability of personality traits over dairy cattle’s lifetime. It is the first study of its kind in a farm animal species.

Read more: https://news.ubc.ca/2020/02/12/got-a-moody-teenager-cows-can-relate/ 

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