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- Title
Visual Target Control of Schedule-Induced Aggression in White King Pigeons (Columba livia).
- Authors
Cohen, Perrin S.; Yoburn, Byron C.; Pennington, Rohe V.; Ball, Richard
- Abstract
Visual target control of schedule-induced attack was studied in domesticated pigeons by exposing them to successive and simultaneous target preference procedures involving a fixed-time food schedule and projected target images. Pigeons preferred attacking an image of a conspecific head over a headless bird regardless of the height of the latter. Images of an intact bird and of a head alone were equally effective in controlling attack and more effective than the headless bird. Neither the eye nor four other head-related features exclusively controlled attack. The combined results suggest that the bead of an intact conspecific target selectively controls schedule-induced attack and that the effectiveness of the head in directing attack is inversely related to its physical integrity as a unit without regard to specific features. These results are consistent with reports that the head and head-related features of an intruder control reproductive aggression in birds.
- Subjects
ANIMAL aggression; KING pigeons; ANIMAL sexual behavior; BIRD behavior; ANIMAL behavior; TARGET acquisition
- Publication
Aggressive Behavior, 1979, Vol 5, Issue 3, p291
- ISSN
0096-140X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/1098-2337(1979)5:3<291::AID-AB2480050306>3.0.CO;2-C