[Studies of the eating behavior of Japanese quail chicks in the early postnatal period].
Time of the eating reaction (response to video signals) and eating behavior shortly after hatching were studied in Japanese quail chicks whose embryonic development took place under normal or changed gravity. Chicks partially incubated in a changed gravity showed a much slower eating reaction when compared with the chicks the prenatal development of which occurred under the normal gravity. In the chicks incubated at 1 g and placed in individual cages immediately after dominating afferentation for the eating behavior was visual Observations in the study will be used as a basis for designing a technology for handling and maintenance of hatchlings of the Japanese quail as a potential heterotrophic component of space life support systems.
Khekhneva
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Gur'eva
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Dadasheva
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Sychev
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D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D003370:Coturnix / Q000254:growth & development*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness