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Emotion can also cause chickens to get red in the face - EurekAlert


<p><strong>How can we know what chickens are feeling? An INRAE research team were able to uncover various degrees of redness on chickens&#39; faces depending on their emotional state, while, at the same time, demonstrating that the skin of chickens that were used to humans stayed lighter in colour, thereby indicating a calmer state when humans were nearby. These results, which provide keys for assessing animal welfare, were published on 21 April in the <em>Applied Animal Behaviour Science</em> journal.</strong></p>

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