Domestication and stress effects on contrafreeloading and spatial learning performance in red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) and White Leghorn layers

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 80-84

  Lindqvist, Christina ^a   Jensen, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chickens; Domestication; Foraging; Spatial learning; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DOMESTICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POULTRY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC FOWL; DOMESTICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CHICKENS; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LIGHTING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 63349101503     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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