Prenatal light exposure affects early feather-pecking behaviour in the domestic chick

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1037-1042

  Riedstra, B ^a,b   Groothuis, T G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC SPECIES; LIGHT EFFECT; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 3042825570     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.10.009     Document Type: Article

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