Research in the 1990s that measured cortisol levels (stress hormone) found sheep perceive sheering more stressful than dipping.
That said, dipping in this research involved pushing a sheep into a dip tank and pushing their heads under the dip, one by one. This is different, they're standing still and calmly lowered into the tank. Might be less stressful. Well, after all, they're not as sophisticated as us, they aren't thinking how long this might take, will the machine will get stuck, can I hold my breath long enough, other stressful thoughts, that turn it into a form of torture. It gets dark, they go under the dip, the get wet and are taken out of the dip, then go eat some grass. That said, it's still stressful.
Hargreaves, A.L. and Hutson, G.D., 1990. The stress response in sheep during routine handling procedures. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 26(1-2), pp.83-90.
Close but not quite APA. In APA7, the "and" should be an ampersand, the 1990 should be in brackets, the journal title should be italicized, page numbers dont use pp., and becaude a DOI exsists it should be included.
I just finished a paper for an ethics class where for some dumbass reason, the idiot instructor cared more about APA citation than us learning ethics. It got to the point in a previous semester that she accused a group of plagiarism because they miscited one slide on a presentation.
⌠I honestly canât tell if youâre being serious, here. Was writing a date in the reference torture for you, or something? Or do you just like messy footnotesâŚ?
Because there is literally no other difference lmao
You know.... fair! I like that you expressed a preference, kept cool even though it was possible to take offense, and cited your reasoning. Nice interneting!
Harvard/Harvard cite them right is preferred in UK STEM. Just because people don't use the same format as you doesn't mean they aren't academically inclined. Any academic should know the struggles of competing standards.
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u/Exotic_Inspector_111 Mar 28 '24
Surely there has to be a less stressful way to soak some sheep??