A place to hide in the home-cage decreases yolk androgen levels and offspring emotional reactivity in Japanese quail.

A place to hide in the home-cage decreases yolk androgen levels and offspring emotional reactivity in Japanese quail.

An animal's emotional responses are the result of its cognitive appraisal of a situation. This appraisal is notably influenced by the possibility of an individual to exert control over an aversive event. Although the fact that environment controllability decreases emotional responses in animals...

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Main Authors: Vanessa Guesdon, Aline Bertin, Cécilia Houdelier, Sophie Lumineau, Laureline Formanek, Kurt Kotrschal, Erich Möstl, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3182999?pdf=render

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