Understanding the ways in which individuals cope with threats, respond to challenges, make
use of opportunities and mediate the harmful effects of their surroundings is important for …

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 …

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 …

Complète, cette introduction à l'éthologie-science biologique du comportement résidant
dans l'observation des animaux-propose, grâce à son approche multidisciplinaire, une …

Beyond the genetic links between mother and young, prenatal effects experienced by
offspring can modulate their mother's behaviour and stress. Here we investigated the …

Maternal behavior is known to influence the behavioral development of young. Recently, it
was demonstrated that maternal behavior also differed according to sex of chicks and brood …

Sex is a trait which leads mothers to invest asymmetrically in their young, especially in
species with a strong dimorphism. Authors usually consider that members of the largest sex …

The neural system underlying maternal caregiving has often been studied using laboratory
rodents and a few other mammalian species. This research shows that the medial preoptic …

Adoption is an usual procedure to experiment non-genomic influences on young
development. However relatedness may be a variation factor of maternal behaviour who can …