Living organisms are far superior to state-of-the-art robots as they have evolved a wide
number of capabilities that far encompass our most advanced technologies. The merging of …

Animal welfare is a key and distinct component of sustainable agriculture and food security.
People, both as citizens and consumers, have become more concerned about the …

Early stress can have long-lasting phenotypic effects. Previous research shows that male
and female chickens differ in many behavioural aspects, and respond differently to chronic …

Chickens cannot independently thermoregulate at hatch and lack opportunity to behaviorally
thermoregulate with a hen in the egg layer industry, thus barns are heated to thermoneutral …

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 …

Early maternal deprivation impairs the behavioral development of young individuals.
Recently, strong differences between mothered and maternally deprived chicks have been …

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 …

The Yoruba (YRE) and Fulani (FLE) are the two notable indigenous chicken ecotypes in
Nigeria. They exhibit broodiness and post-hatch care of their chicks. Studies on welfare …

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 …

Understanding the mechanisms of non-genetic inheritance is fundamental as they are
involved in evolution processes. One of the paths that nongenetic inheritance can take is via …