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S. Buijs is a leading researcher in dairy cattle behavior and welfare, with a particular focus on the cognitive and motivational challenges posed by automatic milking systems (AMS). Her work investigates how individual differences—such as social rank and personality—influence a cow’s ability to learn complex voluntary behaviors, like visiting a milking robot at optimal intervals. In a highly cited 2025 study (6 citations), Buijs demonstrated that social hierarchy and temperament directly affect visit frequency, offering critical insights for improving training protocols and reducing stress in transition periods. She further explored feeding strategies, showing in another influential paper (4 citations) that providing concentrate feed outside the milking robot can boost overall feed intake without diminishing a cow’s motivation to visit the robot—a key finding for balancing nutrition and milking efficiency. Buijs’s contributions bridge ethology and applied animal science, providing evidence-based recommendations that enhance both productivity and welfare. Her work is essential reading for students and researchers in precision livestock farming, animal cognition, and sustainable dairy management, as it challenges assumptions about automated systems and highlights the importance of individual animal variation in technological adoption.
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