Detour behaviour in the domestic chick: searching for a disappearance prey or a disappearing social partner
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Difficulties in showing targetted searching behavior in chicks using mealworms as targets in a double screen test may be the result of the chick's fear response to the unusual environment, and not a sign that the chick is incapable of conceptualizing the worm. A similar double screen study using a 'friend,' in this case an imprinted red ball, suggests that chicks are able to exhibit searching behavior. The same study found that in the presence of a cage mate, chicks were more likely to search out the mealworm, likely due to less fear amongst the chicks than in previous studies.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
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Object and spatial representations in detour problems by chicks
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A study of detour behavior in two-day-old chicks, Gallus gallus domesticus, shows that the chicks do not possess the cognitive abilities for carrying out detour behavior. Chicks are aware of an object and can orient toward the goal in the absence of local orienting cues arising from it. Gender differences exist in the identification of the object.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
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Delayed search for social and nonsocial goals by young domestic chicks, Gallus gallus domesticus
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The delayed-response problem is used to investigate the temporal characteristics of the ability of animals to represent and remember objects that have disappeared. The findings reveal that domestic chicks have striking abilities to remember the location of biologically attractive objects but outperform most mammals, including primates.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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