Social housing and domestic chicks' responses to symbolic video images

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 56, Issue 2-4, 1998, Pages 231-243

  Jones, R Bryan ^a   Carmichael, Nina ^a   Williams, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attraction; Domestic chicks; Social housing; Video images

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031981396     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(97)00099-3     Document Type: Article

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