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

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

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