Domestication effects on behavioural synchronization and individual distances in chickens (Gallus gallus)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 250-256

  Eklund, Beatrix ^a   Jensen, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allelomimetic; Inter individual distance; Red junglefowl; Social behaviour; White Leghorn

Indexed keywords

ALLELOCHEMICAL; CAPTIVITY; DOMESTICATION; POULTRY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNCHRONY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREED DIFFERENCE; CHICKEN; DOMESTICATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHICKENS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 79551681308     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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