Effects of Personality Traits on the Food-Scratching Behaviour and Food Intake of Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica)
Abstract
:Simple Summary
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Ethical Note
2.2. Study Species and Breeding Conditions
2.3. General Experiment Procedure
2.4. Personality Assays
2.5. Foraging Behaviour Experiments
2.6. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Sampling Information
3.2. Behavioural Repeatability and Correlation
3.3. Personality Traits and Food-Scratching Behaviours
3.4. Personality Traits and Food Intake
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Scratching Behaviours | Variables | Estimate | Standard Error | t Value | p Value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NSB | PC1 | 3.632 | 1.131 | 3.213 | 0.002 |
PC2 | 2.068 | 2.421 | 0.854 | 0.396 | |
Body weight | −0.116 | 0.168 | −0.686 | 0.495 | |
Sex | −1.607 | 3.467 | −0.464 | 0.646 | |
NS | PC1 | 10.184 | 4.360 | 2.336 | 0.023 |
PC2 | 9.742 | 9.337 | 1.043 | 0.301 | |
Body weight | −0.471 | 0.649 | −0.726 | 0.471 | |
Sex | 2.076 | 13.370 | 0.155 | 0.877 | |
TFS (s) | PC1 | −259.113 | 37.997 | −6.819 | <0.001 |
PC2 | −171.719 | 81.374 | −2.110 | 0.039 | |
Body weight | 8.869 | 5.659 | 1.567 | 0.122 | |
Sex | 170.345 | 116.517 | 1.462 | 0.148 | |
TTS (s) | PC1 | 5.327 | 2.2704 | 2.346 | 0.022 |
PC2 | 4.542 | 4.862 | 0.934 | 0.354 | |
Body weight | −0.295 | 0.338 | −0.873 | 0.386 | |
Sex | −0.654 | 6.962 | −0.094 | 0.926 |
Order of 2 min Foraging Period | Pearson’s Correlation Coefficients | p Values | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Females | Males | Females | Males | |
1 | 0.516 | 0.093 | 0.003 | 0.600 |
2 | 0.509 | 0.205 | 0.003 | 0.420 |
3 | 0.628 | 0.292 | <0.001 | 0.281 |
4 | 0.468 | 0.438 | 0.009 | 0.029 |
5 | 0.386 | 0.386 | 0.050 | 0.073 |
6 | 0.383 | 0.388 | 0.053 | 0.070 |
7 | 0.437 | 0.421 | 0.018 | 0.039 |
8 | 0.267 | 0.388 | 0.211 | 0.070 |
9 | 0.263 | 0.477 | 0.222 | 0.013 |
10 | 0.222 | 0.476 | 0.360 | 0.013 |
11 | 0.136 | 0.515 | 0.828 | 0.006 |
12 | 0.193 | 0.454 | 0.493 | 0.021 |
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Zhang, X.; Wang, X.; Wang, W.; Xu, R.; Li, C.; Zhang, F. Effects of Personality Traits on the Food-Scratching Behaviour and Food Intake of Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica). Animals 2021, 11, 3423. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11123423
Zhang X, Wang X, Wang W, Xu R, Li C, Zhang F. Effects of Personality Traits on the Food-Scratching Behaviour and Food Intake of Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica). Animals. 2021; 11(12):3423. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11123423
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Xinyu, Xue Wang, Wei Wang, Renxin Xu, Chunlin Li, and Feng Zhang. 2021. "Effects of Personality Traits on the Food-Scratching Behaviour and Food Intake of Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica)" Animals 11, no. 12: 3423. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11123423
APA StyleZhang, X., Wang, X., Wang, W., Xu, R., Li, C., & Zhang, F. (2021). Effects of Personality Traits on the Food-Scratching Behaviour and Food Intake of Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica). Animals, 11(12), 3423. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11123423