Animal of the week|The chicken also expresses feelings.
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Chickens blush in exciting situations, says the study.
Chickens turn red when eating their favorite food and taking a sand bath.
The study also found that chickens blush in the presence of strangers.
Are they exciting? social situations? Are you shy in company? You are not alone. Chickens blush too. This is what the fresh one tells us researchpublished in the open science series POS One.
The skin visible on the chicken’s face becomes slightly redder when it is in an exciting, unpleasant or otherwise just emotional situation. The chicken may also blush in the presence of the researcher if it is not used to the person in question.
Chickens too has feelings, but interpreting them can be a bit challenging, since the chicken’s stiff rump is expressionless.
The chicken doesn’t grimace or squeal terribly. Of course, it expresses its inner world, for example, by preening its feathers, fluffing its feathers, and in other ways.
The zoologists of the French National Research Center followed chickens living in relatively free conditions on two chicken farms in the countryside and photographed them weekly with high-precision cameras.
The researchers specifically wanted to find out if you can infer anything about a chicken’s soul from its face.
The reactions of the chickens were filmed as they went about their daily chores – eating, resting, taking sand baths and meeting people.
It seemed that a chicken blushes when something exciting happens. For example, when it gets mealworms as its favorite food. Picking up the chicken also caused a flushing reaction. Likewise, the chicken blushes when it is in a sand bath, which it enjoys very much.
Kanan reading the redness can be a bit challenging, even more so when the bare skin on the chicken’s face is quite red anyway in many breeds. Such a reaction could, however, be observed in the exact photo series.
Earlier this year, the same researchers observed in another in the studythat the hen blushes even in the presence of strangers.
In the study, half of the chickens were accustomed to the presence of the researcher and half were allowed to be in their own conditions. Those who were not used to the researcher turned a little redder when they met him.