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DOMESTIC chicks are widely used as convenient experimental animals, but their use has a major drawback; one batch is frequently quite unlike another. Chicks hatching one week may, for example, be behaviourally sluggish whereas chicks hatching another week may be hyperactive. Striking differences have been found in a wide variety of behavioural and biochemical measures1–3.
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BATESON, P. Atmospheric pressure during incubation and post-hatch behaviour in chicks. Nature 248, 805–807 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248805a0
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