Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl
The world’s most numerous bird, the domestic chicken, and their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, have long been used as model species for animal behaviour research. Recently, this research has advanced our understanding of the social behaviour, personality, and cognition of fowl, and demonstrated...
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description | The world’s most numerous bird, the domestic chicken, and their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, have long been used as model species for animal behaviour research. Recently, this research has advanced our understanding of the social behaviour, personality, and cognition of fowl, and demonstrated their sophisticated behaviour and cognitive skills. Here, we overview some of this research, starting with describing research investigating the well-developed senses of fowl, before presenting how socially and cognitively complex they can be. The realisation that domestic chickens, our most abundant production animal, are behaviourally and cognitively sophisticated should encourage an increase in general appraise and fascination towards them. In turn, this should inspire increased use of them as both research and hobby animals, as well as improvements in their unfortunately often poor welfare. |
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spelling | pubmed-57910312018-02-05 Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl Garnham, Laura Løvlie, Hanne Behav Sci (Basel) Review The world’s most numerous bird, the domestic chicken, and their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, have long been used as model species for animal behaviour research. Recently, this research has advanced our understanding of the social behaviour, personality, and cognition of fowl, and demonstrated their sophisticated behaviour and cognitive skills. Here, we overview some of this research, starting with describing research investigating the well-developed senses of fowl, before presenting how socially and cognitively complex they can be. The realisation that domestic chickens, our most abundant production animal, are behaviourally and cognitively sophisticated should encourage an increase in general appraise and fascination towards them. In turn, this should inspire increased use of them as both research and hobby animals, as well as improvements in their unfortunately often poor welfare. MDPI 2018-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5791031/ /pubmed/29342087 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs8010013 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Garnham, Laura Løvlie, Hanne Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl |
title | Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl |
title_full | Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl |
title_fullStr | Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl |
title_full_unstemmed | Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl |
title_short | Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl |
title_sort | sophisticated fowl: the complex behaviour and cognitive skills of chickens and red junglefowl |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5791031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29342087 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs8010013 |
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