Sentence examples for reared birds from inspiring English sources
Canny farmers are developing wild-bird shoots in case shooting reared birds should one day be banned.
Nassar and his nine siblings were raised on a small plot of land where his father grew orange, cherry, and jabuticaba trees, and reared birds and rabbits.
When released at the age at which normally reared birds fly proficiently, the experimental subjects flew without practice as successfully as those that had spent their time in trial flight.
We found that GS with retraining could achieve the set objectives while requiring 75%% fewer reared birds and 82 % fewer phenotyped birds per year.
Another study that used naive laboratory reared birds has reported aversion to eyespots, but those found on real butterfly wings [ 26].
The intestines of many feral and commercially reared birds, livestock, domestic pets, and animals are asymptomatically colonized by this bacterium, which is widely distributed in the environment and food.
Therefore, to assess the generality of scientific findings from hand-reared birds, it is important to understand how hand rearing affects behavioural development, and specifically whether the cognitive and behavioural phenotypes of adult hand-reared birds are abnormal.
However, since we did not find consistent evidence for reduced fearfulness in hand-reared birds, we remain agnostic about the welfare benefits of hand-rearing as a method for sourcing wild birds for behavioural and physiological research.
There was some evidence that hand-reared birds were less neophobic and less impulsive than wild-caught birds, suggesting that hand rearing might alter emotionally mediated decision making in a direction usually associated with reduced developmental stress in mammals.
The experimenter was a person familiar to the hand-reared birds as she had been the main person involved in the actual hand-rearing protocol.
Thus, it is possible that the housing conditions of our hand-reared birds post-fledging were sufficiently stimulating to compensate for negative effects of the hand-rearing procedure.
