About the Authors

Dorothea Döring

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

d.doering@lmu.de

Affiliation Chair of Animal Welfare, Ethology, Animal Hygiene and Husbandry, Veterinary Faculty, Department of Veterinary Sciences, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Ophelia Nick

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair of Animal Welfare, Ethology, Animal Hygiene and Husbandry, Veterinary Faculty, Department of Veterinary Sciences, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Alexander Bauer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Helmut Küchenhoff

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Michael H. Erhard

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair of Animal Welfare, Ethology, Animal Hygiene and Husbandry, Veterinary Faculty, Department of Veterinary Sciences, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The study received funding from Bayer AG. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.