Fearfulness in red junglefowl and domesticated White Leghorn chickens

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-43

  Campler, Magnus ^a   Jöngren, Markus ^a   Jensen, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Chicken; Domestication; Fear; Stress

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DOMESTICATION; POULTRY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC FOWL; DOMESTICATION; FEAR; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CHICKENS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 63349111150     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.018     Document Type: Article

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