Highlights•We compared stress responses of chicks in the presence and absence of their
mother.•We also measured the hens' socially mediated arousal (SMA) during chick …

The excessive intensive production of poultry meat and egg caused significant changes in
poultry husbandry, behavior, and welfare. Therefore, animal welfare and behavior have …

Simple Summary Chickens raised to lay eggs are housed from hatch in groups of animals of
the same age, and without maternal care from a broody hen. There are several hybrid lines …

In both humans and non-humans, differences in maternal style during the first few weeks of
life can be reliably characterized, and these differences affect offspring's temperament and …

Abstract Animal–Robot Interaction experiments have demonstrated their usefulness to
understand the social behaviour of a growing number of animal species. In order to study …

Studies about personalities in wild animals usually focus on five categories of behavioral
traits that do not easily accommodate all aspects of parental care, a class of behaviors with …

We investigated the consequences of chronic social instability (CSI) during adulthood on
social and maternal behavior in females and social behavior of their offspring in a rat model …

Highlights•Maternal care in Japanese quail counteracts prenatal stress effects.•Mothered
chicks have a lower level of emotional reactivity than nonmothered ones.•Maternal care's …

Compared to mammals and altricial birds, evaluations of differences related to precocial
birds' sex have often been limited to sexual behavior. Nevertheless, the extensive use of …

Our study investigated relationships between a precocial bird's fearfulness and maternal
care, and the implication of maternal care as a vector for non-genomic transmission of …