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The highest-ranking rooster has priority to announce the break of dawn

The “cock-a-doodle-doo” crowing of roosters, which symbolizes the break of dawn in many cultures, is controlled by the circadian clock. When one rooster announces the break of dawn, others in the vicinity immediately follow. Chickens are highly social animals, and they develop a linear and fixed hie...

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Autores principales: Shimmura, Tsuyoshi, Ohashi, Shosei, Yoshimura, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4512148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26203594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep11683