No evidence for emotional empathy in chickens observing familiar adult conspecifics.

The capacity of animals to empathise is of high potential relevance to the welfare of group-housed domestic animals. Emotional empathy is a multifaceted and multilayered phenomenon which ranges from relatively simple processes such as emotional matching behaviour to more complex processes involving...

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Main Authors: Joanne L Edgar, Elizabeth S Paul, Lauren Harris, Sarah Penturn, Christine J Nicol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3278448?pdf=render