{"title":"Play in fowl and flies: The renaissance continues.","authors":"Gordon M Burghardt","doi":"10.3758/s13420-025-00675-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study of animal play has grown popular in recent years and its occurrence in diverse taxa documented. Two recent papers describe detailed experimental research on play in Drosophila and the effects of domestication on play in red junglefowl and domestic chickens, furthering the need to understand the role of play in behavioral evolution throughout the animal kingdom.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Learning & Behavior","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-025-00675-2","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The study of animal play has grown popular in recent years and its occurrence in diverse taxa documented. Two recent papers describe detailed experimental research on play in Drosophila and the effects of domestication on play in red junglefowl and domestic chickens, furthering the need to understand the role of play in behavioral evolution throughout the animal kingdom.
期刊介绍:
Learning & Behavior publishes experimental and theoretical contributions and critical reviews concerning fundamental processes of learning and behavior in nonhuman and human animals. Topics covered include sensation, perception, conditioning, learning, attention, memory, motivation, emotion, development, social behavior, and comparative investigations.