Behavioural testing to determine differences between coping styles in Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus) with and without feather damaging behaviour

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 148, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 218-231

  Van Zeeland, Yvonne R A ^a   van der Aa, Marleen M J A ^a,b   Vinke, Claudia M ^b   Lumeij, Johannes T ^a   Schoemaker, Nico J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feather picking; Feather plucking; Manual restraint test; Novel object test; Open field test; Psittacine

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; BLOOD; COPING STRATEGY; ETIOLOGY; FEATHER; PLASMA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ERITHACUS; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES; PSITTACUS ERITHACUS;

EID: 84886589745     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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