Social facilitation acts more on the appetitive than the consummatory phase of feeding behaviour in domestic fowl

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-15

  Keeling, Linda J ^a   Hurnik, J Frank ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMMATORY PHASE; DOMESTIC HEN; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; SOCIAL FACILITATION;

GALLUS GALLUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0030176783     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0148     Document Type: Article

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