Appearance matters: Artificial marking alters aggression and stress

Poultry Science

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1939-1946

  Dennis, R L ^a,c   Newberry, R C ^b   Cheng, H W ^c   Estevez, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Dominance; Identification; Social behavior; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 53349144485     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2007-00311     Document Type: Article

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