Changes in tail posture detected by a 3D machine vision system are associated with injury from damaging behaviours and ill health on commercial pig farms

• Richard B. D’Eath ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: rick.death@sruc.ac.uk

  Affiliation Animal Behaviour & Welfare, SRUC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1801-254X

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• Simone Foister,

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

  Affiliation Innovent Technology Ltd, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

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• Mhairi Jack,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Behaviour & Welfare, SRUC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Nicola Bowers,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Garth Pig Practice Ltd, Driffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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• Qiming Zhu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Innovent Technology Ltd, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

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• David Barclay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Innovent Technology Ltd, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

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• Emma M. Baxter

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Behaviour & Welfare, SRUC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3370-7371

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