Forced to crowd or choosing to cluster? Spatial distribution indicates social attraction in broiler chickens

By Kian Febrer, T. A. Jones, C. Donnelly, Marian S. Dawkins. 2006

100 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Small Animals

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0ab3dfac881f6193de7141d01a2b683caba04229

How researchers see this paper

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In Animal Science and Zoology

1. E. Leone
2. Marian S. Dawkins
3. Christine J Nicol
4. Lucy Asher
5. Inma Estevez
6. Michael W. Davis
7. E. Fernández‐Juricic
8. Alex Kacelnik

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. E. Leone
2. Christine J Nicol
3. Lucy Asher
4. Inma Estevez

In Small Animals

1. E. Leone
2. Marian S. Dawkins
3. Christine J Nicol
4. Michael W. Davis

Citations in the corpus

• Use of space in the domestic fowl: separating the effects of enclosure size, group size and density (2008, background): “2002) and these disturbances may have caused repositioning or jostling (Febrer et al. 2006).”
• Clustering and synchrony in laying hens: The effect of environmental resources on social dynamics (2011, background): “For example, Febrer et al. (2006) found that broilers kept at a range of commercial stocking densities all”
• The Science of Animal Suffering (2008, background): “The distribution of the birds with respect to each other suggested that they were not avoiding each other at all (Febrer et al. 2006), but seemed positively attracted to other birds.”