Garnham Laura, Løvlie Hanne
IFM Biology, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2018 Jan 17;8(1):13. doi: 10.3390/bs8010013.
The world's most numerous bird, the domestic chicken, and their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, have long been used as model species for animal behaviour research. Recently, this research has advanced our understanding of the social behaviour, personality, and cognition of fowl, and demonstrated their sophisticated behaviour and cognitive skills. Here, we overview some of this research, starting with describing research investigating the well-developed senses of fowl, before presenting how socially and cognitively complex they can be. The realisation that domestic chickens, our most abundant production animal, are behaviourally and cognitively sophisticated should encourage an increase in general appraise and fascination towards them. In turn, this should inspire increased use of them as both research and hobby animals, as well as improvements in their unfortunately often poor welfare.
世界上数量最多的鸟类——家鸡，及其野生祖先原鸡，长期以来一直被用作动物行为研究的模式物种。最近，这项研究增进了我们对家禽社会行为、个性和认知的理解，并展示了它们复杂的行为和认知技能。在此，我们概述其中一些研究，首先描述对家禽发达感官的研究，然后介绍它们在社会和认知方面的复杂性。认识到我们数量最多的养殖动物家鸡在行为和认知上很复杂，应该会促使人们对它们的总体评价和喜爱度有所增加。反过来，这应该会激发人们更多地将它们用作研究和宠物动物，并改善它们不幸常常糟糕的福利状况。
