Domestic chicks are attracted to a familiar odorant in a novel test situation: A brief report

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 351-356

  Jones, R Bryan ^a   Carmichael, Nina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chicken olfactory system; Familiar odour; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033611483     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(98)00204-4     Document Type: Article

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