Forced to crowd or choosing to cluster? Spatial distribution indicates social attraction in broiler chickens
- 1 December 2006
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Animal Behaviour
- Vol. 72 (6) , 1291-1300
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.03.019
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