Thinking chickens: a review of cognition, emotion, and behavior in the domestic chicken
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- 作者：Lori Marino
- 关键词：Chicken cognition ; Gallus domesticus ; Sentience Intelligence ; Social complexity ; Communication
- 刊名：Animal Cognition
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：March 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：20
- 期：2
- 页码：127-147
- 全文大小：631KB
- 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
- 刊物主题：Behavioral Sciences; Zoology; Psychology Research;
- 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- ISSN：1435-9456
- 卷排序：20
文摘
Domestic chickens are members of an order, Aves, which has been the focus of a revolution in our understanding of neuroanatomical, cognitive, and social complexity. At least some birds are now known to be on par with many mammals in terms of their level of intelligence, emotional sophistication, and social interaction. Yet, views of chickens have largely remained unrevised by this new evidence. In this paper, I examine the peer-reviewed scientific data on the leading edge of cognition, emotions, personality, and sociality in chickens, exploring such areas as self-awareness, cognitive bias, social learning and self-control, and comparing their abilities in these areas with other birds and other vertebrates, particularly mammals. My overall conclusion is that chickens are just as cognitively, emotionally and socially complex as most other birds and mammals in many areas, and that there is a need for further noninvasive comparative behavioral research with chickens as well as a re-framing of current views about their intelligence.