Changing colour preferences of chicks

Taylor, Ann; Sluckin, W.; Hewitt, Rosemary

doi:10.1016/0003-3472(69)90105-5

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“…Warm stimuli, in particular, are attractive: rat pups approach and huddle with a variety of animate and inanimate sources of heat (Alberts, 1978;Alberts & Brunjes, 1978;Brunjes & Alberts, 1979;Cosnier, 1965). Moreover, temperature cues have been shown to be effective reinforcers for associative learning in small, thermally fragile, infant organisms (Martin & Alberts, 1982;Taylor, Sluckin, & Hewitt, 1969). Perhaps the power of "maternal" stimuli, as they bear on the establishment of olfactory huddling preferences, derives from the thermal consequences of contact interaction.…”

Section: Experiments Iv: Thermotactile Stimulation From a Surrogate Inmentioning

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Nonnutritive, thermotactile induction of filial huddling in rat pups

Alberts

May

1984

Developmental Psychobiology

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Norway rat pups, 15 days of age and older, huddle preferentially with members of their own species. This normal filial response can be reassigned, however, by altering the olfactory characteristics of the mother. The present series of experiments was designed to isolate those aspects of maternal stimulation that establish the filial huddling preferences of rat pups. Results of two-choice huddling tests indicated that daily, 4-hr exposures to a perfumed foster dam induced filial preferences for odors associated with maternal care. Similar effects were also achieved with equal amounts of "mere exposure" (familiarization) to odors. Different kinds of odor-experience pairings were evaluated with a within-subject regime of alternating, daily exposures. It was found that preferences induced by maternal contact are stronger than those resulting from familiarization. We rejected the hypothesis that the nursing relationship is a necessary or contributory factor in the establishment of the rat's filial attraction; preferences for odors associated with a nonlactating foster mother were as strong as those derived from maternal contact that included nutritive nursing. Contact interactions with an inanimate, warm, scented tube induced preferences as strong as those induced by maternal care. It was concluded that thermotactile stimulation during mother-young interactions induces olfactory preferences in the weanling rat.

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Section: Experiments Iv: Thermotactile Stimulation From a Surrogate Inmentioning

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Nonnutritive, thermotactile induction of filial huddling in rat pups

Alberts

May

1984

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…It is common to find in the imprinting literature that chicks or ducklings imprinted on stimulus A and then given a choice test between stimuli A and B show as a group a statistically significant preference for A, but that some birds show a preference for the novel stimulus B. To give one example; Taylor et al (1969) measured chicks' preference for a red or a blue plastic square before and after exposure to one of the objects. A significant majority of the red-exposed chicks shifted towards a preference for red, but five out of the sample of 29 showed a shift towards blue.…”

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“…The naive preference for red survives the exposure to green, and such preferences can be explained adaptively as means of minimizing the risk of imprinting on inappropriate things such as foliage. Even so, studies such as that of Taylor et al (1969) using designs balanced to account for naive preference still show a proportion of birds approaching the novel stimulus.…”

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1982

Perspectives in Ethology

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“…The differences in the results of these two studies may be atcributed to strain differences in the chicks used, ' procedural differences, seasonal variations, or differences in the behavioral criteria used to measure the following response. Age and prior experience also affect the color preferences of young chicks (Taylor, et al, 1969;Gray, 1961).These earlier findings raise three questions: ( 1 ) Does the background color of the testing arena affect the stimulus object color preferences of young domestic chicks? ( 2 ) Does the color of che testing arena affect the following responses of the young chicks?…”

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Effect of Color in Rearing and Testing Environment on the Behavior of Young Domestic Chicks

Boltz

Drickamer

1975

Percept Mot Skills

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Young domestic chicks were reared individually in compartments of four different colors and then tested either in a color-preference test with stationary objects (N equals 128) or with a moving stimulus (N equals 128). For each type of test we used four background colors in the test arena. The dependent variables included color preferences, following behavior and emotional responses of the young chicks. The results showed no significant effects of the color of the arena-background in either test situation. The color of the rearing compartment was a significant factor affecting color preferences in the test with stationary objects. In both test situations the colors red, and then green, were the most potent in affecting the color preferences and emotional responses exhibited by the chicks.

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Changing colour preferences of chicks

Cited by 46 publications

References 8 publications

Nonnutritive, thermotactile induction of filial huddling in rat pups

Nonnutritive, thermotactile induction of filial huddling in rat pups

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Effect of Color in Rearing and Testing Environment on the Behavior of Young Domestic Chicks

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