Newborn chicks show inherited variability in early social predispositions for hen-like stimuli

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• who: Elisabetta Versace from the Center for MindUniversity of have published the research work: Newborn chicks show inherited variability in early social predispositions for hen-like stimuli, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
• how: To investigate the predisposition for approaching the stuffed hen vs. the scrambled hen the authors used the relative hen preference index which indicates the relative preference for the stuffed hen vs. the scrambled hen independently from the amount of activity in the wheel (see Fig 2). The authors investigated three chicken breeds that entered the Co.Va conservation project22 since . . .
  

   

  

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