Regulation of dustbathing in feathered and featherless domestic chicks: The Lorenzian model revisited

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1017-1025

  Vestergaard, Klaus S ^a   Damm, Birgitte I ^a   Abbott, Ursula K ^b   Bildsøe, Mogens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPENSATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; MODEL;

GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0032702492     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1233     Document Type: Article

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