Chicks, just like pets, also benefit from gentle human touch, new research has revealed. Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that gentle human interactions do not only prevent fear in baby chicks but also trigger positive emotions. The findings offer new insights into how early-life handling affects the welfare of young farm animals.

Chicks, just like pets, also benefit from gentle human touch, new research has revealed. Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that gentle human interactions do not only prevent fear in baby chicks but also trigger positive emotions. The findings offer new insights into how early-life handling affects the welfare of young farm animals.

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    This also indicates that birds & mammals both have the same hug-oriented-nervous-system!

    Some years ago, there was a case of a woman, probably in Scandinavia somewhere, who either had the hugging-nervous-system but not the normal-touch nervous-system, or vice versa…

    Anyways, it was her who caused the medical-science/neuroscience field to understand what that strange nervous-system we’ve got in us, which doesn’t even notice anything unless it is being activated steadily for about 2 seconds … what it is for.

    Just as we’ve got a pain-sensory-system, we’ve got a gut-mind-system ( the original brain, aka the worm-brain: the other 3 being brainstem/crocodilian, the limbic-system/herdbeast, & the cortex/human brains: 4 of them, but the only one which can operate on its own, without the entire rest of the body, is the nervous-system of the gut ), we’ve got a visual-system, a hearing-system, etc…

    but we’ve got a hugging-system, too!

    I believe that’s part of the cause for the autism-epidemic: it used to be normal for babies to be slung on parent’s body, but now we put babies in buggies/strollers, so they’re missing that hugging-activation … & “use it or lose it” is Nature’s Law, re nervous-system:

    Why is it that lead-filled jackets are pacifying for autistics? Because it’s activating the hugging-nervous-system.

    ( why not use spandex, instead of lead-filled jackets?? Lead’s poison )

    So, when you starve the hugging-system of all the children in a population, … does that create an increase in autism??

    I believe it does. ( that it was thiomersol which was doing it was falsified by the eradication of thiomersol in California, & the autism-rate kept climbing, falsifying that idea )

    Why was it that Temple Grandin found a hugging-machine to be able to activate her brain’s Happy! mode ( before the authorities destroyed it, finding her fixing a problem to be unacceptable )?

    Same nervous-system.

    That birds also have the same ( function, anyways, even if it evolved from different ancestral-system ) roots, is interesting.

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