Towards a more practical attention bias test to assess affective state in sheep

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This work was supported by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (internal funding, URL: www.csiro.au/) and the Australian Wool Education trust (2015 Undergraduate Project Scholarship, URL:www.woolwise.com/) and the Sheep CRC. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.& para;& para;The authors would like to thank the staff and students at CSIRO for their assistance during both experiments: Aymeric de Trogoff du Boisguezenn, Danila Marini, Dennis Meuleman, Dom Niemeyer, Jim Lea, Sue Belson, Tim Dyall, Troy Kalinowski and Warrior the dog. The first author was supported by the CSIRO, the Australian Wool Education Trust and the Sheep CRC to conduct this research.