Coherent use of information by hens observing their former dominant defeating or being defeated by a stranger

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-252

  Hogue, Michèle E ^a   Beaugrand, Jacques P ^a   Laguë, Paul C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Domestic fowl; Dominance; Hierarchy formation; Observation; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 0030468506     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00035-6     Document Type: Article

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