Social discrimination in Japanese quail Coturnix japonica chicks genetically selected for low or high social reinstatement motivation

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-124

  Jones, R Bryan ^a   Mills, Andrew D ^b   Faure, Jean Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Japanese quail; Line difference; Social discrimination; Social reinstatement motivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

EID: 0029959985     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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