Bathing behavior of captive Orange-winged Amazon parrots (Amazona amazonica)

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 132, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 200-210

  Murphy, Shannon M ^a   Braun, Jerome V ^a   Millam, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity budget; Animal welfare; Bathing behavior; Enrichment; Feather maintenance; Preening

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ANIMAL WELFARE; BIRD; CAPTIVITY; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; FEATHER;

AMAZONA; AMAZONA AMAZONICA; ANIMALIA; AVES; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 79957551095     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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