Social reinstatement responses of meat-type chickens to familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics after exposure to an acute stressor

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 282-293

  Guzman, Diego A ^a   Marin, Raul H ^a,b  

^a ICTA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Meat type chickens; Runway; Social discrimination; Stress

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LOCOMOTION; POULTRY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTING METHOD;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 39749147806     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2007.04.017     Document Type: Article

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