Stimulus

What stimuluates chicken to dust-bath?

– the increased proportion of stale lipids (Van Liere 1992)
– social facilitation –> when one starts to dust-bathe others will join (Olssona et al. 2002).
– the sight of a dusty substrate may stimulate dust-bathing (Widowski and Duncan 2000, Olssona et al. 2002).

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