Stimuli Releasing Sexual Behavior Of Domestic Turkeys

Year Published: 1958

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows that the mating activity of turkeys is a stereotyped pattern of behavior, in which each responds to successive cues from its mate. Points out that in normal mating behavior, the male responds with a strutting display to the presence of females, the female crouches, male mounts, female elevates head, male makes cloacal contact, female extrudes oviduct, male inseminates. Through examples, demonstrates that the head is more important than the body in eliciting sexual behavior.

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