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. 2015 Nov 16;56(5):511–521. doi: 10.1080/00071668.2015.1077204

Table 2.

Effect of dry (1D) and wet (1W3) litter treatments on the number of bouts and total duration of different behaviours in Experiment 1

Behaviour 1D 1W3 SED P-value
Mean bout frequency, n/h      
Stand 57.2 30.7 6.90 0.002
Walk 45.2 23.6 6.15 0.003
Preen 22.8 16.1 2.01 0.005
Peck ground 4.15 (62.4)a 1.62 (4.1) 0.274 <0.001
Peck total 5.20 (180.3) 4.47 (86.4) 0.305 0.031
Mean bout length, s    
Feed 40.7 72.1 13.91 0.039
Stand 23.4 52.7 9.66 0.008
Walk 4.87 6.19 0.589 0.041
Total bout duration, %    
Preen 15.79 9.64 2.102 0.010

aBacktransformed mean in parenthesis.