Differences in responses to repeated fear-relevant stimuli between Nagoya and White Leghorn chicks

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 99, Issue , 2013, Pages 95-99

  Abe, Hideaki ^a   Nagao, Kenji ^b   Nakamura, Akihiro ^b   Inoue Murayama, Miho ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Aichi Ken Agricultural Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Domestic chicken; Freezing response; Habituation; Innate fear; Tonic immobility

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HABITUATION; HATCHING; INNATE BEHAVIOR; POULTRY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CHICK; CHICKEN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEAR; FREEZING; HABITUATION; HATCHING; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TONIC IMMOBILITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NEWBORN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHICKENS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84881229658     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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