What's in a peck? Using fixed action pattern morphology to identify the motivational basis of abnormal feather-pecking behaviour
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عنوان ژورنال: Animal Behaviour
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0003-3472
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.06.001