Red Junglefowl Chicks Seek Contact With Humans During Foraging Task.

ABSTRACT: Contact seeking with humans is documented in some domestic animals, mainly dogs, which have advanced communication skills. Domestication as a companion animal is thought to underlie this ability. However, also domesticated horses and goats display similar human-directed behaviors. This suggests either a broader effect of domestication on contact-seeking behavior, or alternatively, that social interactions with humans can result in the development of human contact seeking. As part of another study, we observed contact-seeking behavior in juvenile red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) chicks exposed to behavioral training since hatching, during a foraging task, where chicks were singly required to collect food rewards in a familiar arena using odor cues. If chicks left the arena, we recorded

SUBMITTER: Rubene D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8260840 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature