Personality predicts social dominance in male domestic fowl

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Favati, Anna ^a   Leimar, Olof ^a   Løvlie, Hanne ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC FOWL; GALLUS GALLUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; ANIMAL; CHICKEN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84905027794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103535     Document Type: Article

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