External body temperature and vigilance to a lesser extent track variation in predation risk in domestic fowls
Abstract Background The animal ecology literature proposes the view that predation risk induces fear in prey animals, but it is also possible that behavioral and physiological changes induced by predation risk are not associated with fear at all. If we view fear as a state indicated by measurable ch...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Zoology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40850-019-0039-8 |