Social dispersal by domestic chicks in a novel environment: reassuring properties of a familiar odourant
It may be possible to exploit olfactory attachments shown by chickens, Gallus gallus domesticus, to improve their welfare. In the present study, chicks were housed in groups of 15 in wooden boxes from 1 day of age. Experiment 1 compared fear responses in pairs of 8-10-day-old chicks with no previous experience of vanillin when they […]
Sex differences, social context and personality in zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata
Despite burgeoning interest in consistent individual differences in behaviour (animal [`]personality’), the influence of social interactions on the performance of different behavioural types is poorly understood. Similarly, the ecological and evolutionary consequences of personality differences in social contexts remain unexplored. Moreover, the possibility that the sexes differ in the degree to which they exhibit personality […]