Social stimuli influencing feeding behaviour of Burmese fowl: video analysis

Abstract. After adolescent Burmese red junglefowl, Gallus gallus spadecius, were exposed to videotapes of conspecifics feeding from visually distinctive food dishes, the viewers exhibited enhanced preferences for food dishes of the type that they had observed conspecifics exploit. Both auditory and visual stimuli associated with feeding fowl played a role in producing these socially enhanced feeding-site preferences, and videotapes of fowl …