ReviewBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2018
Sophisticated Fowl: The Complex Behaviour and Cognitive Skills of Chickens and Red Junglefowl.
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- Exercise-Related Personality Traits Are Associated with Gut Microbiome Composition and Meat Quality in Qingyuan Partridge Chickens.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Lateralised Behavioural Responses of Chickens to a Threatening Human and a Novel Environment Indicate Fearful Emotions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Chickens perceive humans as social buffers and may follow human-given cues: A pilot study.Poultry science · 2025Article
- Recent advances in the application of microbiota transplantation in chickens.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2025Review
- Effect of Stocking Density on Behavioural and Physiological Traits of Laying Hens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Proteomics of the Dark-Ventral-Patch Sexual Signal in Male Red Deer.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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- Correlations begin at home: drivers of co-occurrence patterns in personality and cognitive ability in wild populations of zebrafish.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Large variation in the movement of individual broiler chickens tracked in a commercial house using ultra-wideband backpacks.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Welfare of broilers on farm.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2023Article
- Here I am, why don't you answer me? Sensitivity to social responsiveness in domestic chicks.iScience · 2023Article
- Chicken's best friend? Livestock guardian dog bonding with free-ranging chickens.Translational animal science · 2023Article
- Differences among domestic chicken breeds in tonic immobility responses as a measure of fearfulness.PeerJ · 2023Article
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- Increased dietary 5-hydroxytryptophan reduces fearfulness in red junglefowl hens (Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Variation in inhibitory control does not influence social rank, foraging efficiency, or risk taking, in red junglefowl females.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- How Inhibitory Control Relates to Positive and Negative Affective States in Red Junglefowl.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Brain gain-Is the cognitive performance of domestic hens affected by a functional polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene?Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Effects of domestication on responses of chickens and red junglefowl to conspecific calls: A pilot study.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
The world's most numerous bird, the domestic chicken, and their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, have long been used as model species for animal behaviour research. Recently, this research has advanced our understanding of the social behaviour, personality, and cognition of fowl, and demonstrated their sophisticated behaviour and cognitive skills. Here, we overview some of this research, starting with describing research investigating the well-developed senses of fowl, before presenting how socially and cognitively complex they can be. The realisation that domestic chickens, our most abundant production animal, are behaviourally and cognitively sophisticated should encourage an increase in general appraise and fascination towards them. In turn, this should inspire increased use of them as both research and hobby animals, as well as improvements in their unfortunately often poor welfare.
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