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Chicks change their pecking behaviour towards stationary and mobile food sources over the first 12 weeks of life: improvement and discontinuities
Chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) learn to peck soon after hatching and then peck in rapid bursts or bouts with intervals of non-pecking activity. The food sources may be static such as seeds and chick crumb, or mobile such as a mealworm. Here, changes with age in pecking toward chick crumb and a me...
Autores principales: | Murphy, Kenneth J., Hayden, Thomas J., Kent, John P. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4217182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25374777 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.626 |
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