A new study has suggested that the social environment of mother quails has a direct influence on the growth and the behaviour of their young.
The recent study has been performed by Floriane Guibert and Cecilia Houdelier at the CNRS-Universite de Rennes 1 in France, together with researchers at the INRA in Nouzilly, France and with Austrian scientists including Erich Mostl of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.
It may sound surprising that ...