Approach/avoidance responses of domestic chicks to familiar and unfamiliar video images of biologically neutral stimuli

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 81-98

  Jones, R Bryan ^a   Larkins, Christopher ^b   Hughes, Barry O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approach avoidance; Domestic chick; Environmental enrichment; Familiarity; Video images

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002720612     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-1591(95)01003-3     Document Type: Article

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