Notes on the Behavior of the Domestic Fowl
Notes on the Behavior of the Domestic Fowl
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家禽行为注意事项
DOI：
10.1086/279099
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发表时间：
1909
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
P. Hadley
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作者：
P. Hadley
1909年2月，作者注意到一只浅黄色岩公鸡行为的一个有趣特征，这只公鸡养在罗得岛金斯顿的罗得岛州立学院的家禽系里。在简要描述了案件的事实，博士约伯特L。哈佛大学心理学系的Yerkes，并从himi那里得知这个行为值得注意，作者收集了数据，拍摄了照片，并希望提出以下描述，相信它可能会对动物行为学的学生感兴趣。我们所考虑的行为要点在于，一只成年横斑岩公鸡养成了一种习惯，即“工作”一个自动喂食器，该喂食器装有麸皮和谷物，位于家禽部门的一个殖民地房屋中，通过这种行为，获得了比喂食器本身自然能够提供的更大量的谷物成分。这里所说的自动喂食器是由罗得岛的约翰·安德森（John Anderson）制造的，主要包括一个装有饲料的盒子（图1，B）和一个悬挂在盒子下面的托盘（T），盒子的尺寸大约是16 × 11 × 8英寸。食物通过喂食器后部和底部的狭窄开口从盒子中逸出，并被放入瓷砖托盘中，该托盘长13英寸，宽7.5英寸，悬挂在离地面11英寸处。落在托盘上的食物材料的供应由平衡系统调节。星期二托盘是如此
DURING the month of February, 1909, the writer's attention was called to an interesting feature of the behavior of a buff rock cockerel kept in the poultry department of tlhe 'Rhode Island State College at Kingston, Rhode Island. Having briefly described the facts of the case to Dr. iobert L. Yerkes of the Department of Psychology of Harvard University, and having been informed by himi that the behavior in question was somewhat noteworthy, the writer has collected data, secured photographs, and desires to present the following description, believing it may be of interest to students of animal behlavior. The point of behavior under consideration consists in the acquired habit of an adult barred rock cockerel of "working" an automatic feeder, containing bran and grain, located in one of the colony houses of the poultry department, and by this action of securing a larger amount of the grain constituent than the feeder, working by itself, would naturally be able to supply. The automatic feeder in question is of a type manufactured by John Anderson, of Slocums, Rhode Island, and involves mainly a box (Fig. 1, B) containing feed, and a tray (T) suspended beneath it. The dimensions of the box are roughly sixteen by eleven by eight inches. The food material escapes from the box through a narrow opening at the back and bottom of the feeder, and is ca-ughit in tile tray, which is thirteen inches long' by seven and one half inches broad, and is suspended eleven inches form the floor. The supply of food material falling on the tray is regulated by a balance system. Tue tray is so