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Welfare-improving enrichments greatly reduce hens’ startle responses, despite little change in judgment bias

Responses to ambiguous and aversive stimuli (e.g. via tests of judgment bias and measures of startle amplitude) can indicate mammals’ affective states. We hypothesised that such findings generalize to birds, and that these two responses co-vary (since both involve stimulus evaluation). To validate s...

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Autores principales: Ross, Misha, Garland, Anna, Harlander-Matauschek, Alexandra, Kitchenham, Lindsey, Mason, Georgia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6695442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31417122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48351-6