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Uninhibited chickens: ranging behaviour impacts motor self-regulation in free-range broiler chickens (
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- Differences between behavioral time budget and welfare indicators in two different slow-growing broiler genotypes kept in the free-range system.Veterinary research communications · 2025Article
- Large variation in the movement of individual broiler chickens tracked in a commercial house using ultra-wideband backpacks.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Blue tits are outperformed by great tits in a test of motor inhibition, and experience does not improve their performance.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Short photoperiod modulates behavior, cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis in male Japanese quail.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Foraging Behavior Shows Individual-Consistency Over Time, and Predicts Range Use in Slow-Growing Free-Range Male Broiler Chickens.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Learning and motor inhibitory control in crows and domestic chickens.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Replications, Comparisons, Sampling and the Problem of Representativeness in Animal Cognition Research.Animal behavior and cognition · 2021Article
- Working for food is related to range use in free-range broiler chickens.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Emotionality modulates the impact of chronic stress on memory and neurogenesis in birds.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Uninhibited chickens: ranging behaviour impacts motor self-regulation in free-range broiler chickens (Biology letters · 2020Article
- Cell Proliferation in the Adult Chicken Hippocampus Correlates With Individual Differences in Time Spent in Outdoor Areas and Tonic Immobility.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Inhibiting impulsive, less flexible behaviours is of utmost importance for individual adaptation in an ever-changing environment. However, problem-solving tasks may be greatly impacted by individual differences in behaviour, since animals with distinct behavioural types perceive and interact with their environment differently, resulting in variable responses to the same stimuli. Here, we tested whether and how differences in ranging behaviour of free-range chickens affect motor self-regulation performance during a cylinder task. For this task, subjects must refrain from trying to reach a food reward through the walls of a transparent cylinder and detour to its open sides, as a sign of inhibition. Free-range chickens exhibited an overall low performance in the motor self-regulation task (31.33 ± 13.55% of correct responses), however, high rangers showed significantly poorer performance than the low rangers (23.75 ± 9.16% versus 40 ± 12.90%, respectively). These results give further support to the impacts of individual behavioural differences on cognitive performances. This is the first demonstration to our knowledge of a relationship between exploratory tendencies and motor self-regulation for an avian species.
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