The development of rank order and aggressiveness in a group of juvenile Greylag Geese

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Britt-Marie Stahlberg

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In a group of five incubator-hatched goslings, which were human-imprinted, fights were fairly common and a linear rank order was established. Greeting, appeasement and redirected behaviours are described. Different results obtained in other studies are discussed.

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Stahlberg, B.-M. (1974). The development of rank order and aggressiveness in a group of juvenile Greylag Geese. Wildfowl, 67–73. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/article/view/155885
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Wildfowl 25
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