Effects of domestication on responses of chickens and red junglefowl to conspecific calls: A pilot study.

ABSTRACT: Beyond physical and zootechnical characteristics, the process of animal domestication has also altered how domesticated individuals, compared to their wild counterparts, perceive, process, and interact with their environment. Little is known, however, on whether and how domestication altered the perception of conspecific calls on both domesticated and wild breeds. In the present work, we compared the vigilance behavior of domestic and captive-born wild fowl following the playback of chicken alarm calls and contentment calls (control). The playback tests were performed on four different breeds/lines. We first compared the behavioral reaction of domesticated White Leghorn (WL, a breed selected for egg production) and Red Junglefowl (RJF) hens (ancestor of domestic chickens). We also compared

SUBMITTER: Bessa Ferreira VH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9803126 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature