Animal behaviour

Spatial organisation in small flocks of domestic fowl, 1968

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/494

Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1968.

Dates: 1968

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Spatial organization in flocks of domestic fowls, 1974

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/904

Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1974.

Dates: 1974

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Spatial preference in the domestic hen, 1975

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/996

Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1975.

Dates: 1975

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Stereotyped behaviour in broiler breeders in relation to husbandry and opioid receptor blockade, 1992

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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/1301

Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1992. Part 2.

Dates: 1992

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)

Story about a cow concealing her calf, September 1885

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/46

Scope and Contents

Story about a cow concealing her calf collected from Mr John MacDonald, Newton, N[orth] Uist [Port nan Long, Uibhist a Tuath] in which MacDonald suspects a cow of having calved while ferrying heifers from Toraghey, Sound of Harris [Torogaigh, Caolas na Hearadh]. He gets his men to search the island but none was found until MacDonald accidentally stumbled upon the calf himself. Additions have been made to the text in pencil.

Dates: September 1885

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story and notes about snakes, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/39

Scope and Contents

Story and notes about snakes collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, describing when and how the snake sheds its skin; how a man saw a snake jump twelve feet in the air after he had threatened it; that all the belly scales are used in travelling and that they will chase children but not adults. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887