Hand rearing affects emotional responses but not basic cognitive performance in European starlings

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 127-138

  Feenders, Gesa ^a   Bateson, Melissa ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behavioural disinhibition; Early life stress; European starling; Impulsivity; Maternal deprivation; Perseveration; Sturnus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; AVIFAUNA; COGNITION; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; PASSERINE; PATHOLOGY; REARING; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84880165645     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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