Heart rate modulation in bystanding geese watching social and non-social events

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1643, 2008, Pages 1653-1659

  Wascher, Claudia A F ^a,b   Scheiber, Isabella B R ^a   Kotrschal, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle Für Ethologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bystander events; Greylag geese; Heart rate; Physiological response; Relevance of stimuli

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; HORMONE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; FAMILY INTERACTION; GOOSE; HEART RATE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANSER; ANSER ANSER;

EID: 44949106324     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0146     Document Type: Article

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