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Eighteen bilateral adrenalectomized and 19 sham-operated cockerel chicks were tested for duration of tonic immobility (TI) 24 h after surgery. Although there was no difference in TI duration between groups, adrenal weights of the sham-operated group correlated.733 with TI duration. It was suggested, however, that the correlation may have been an artifact of other factors in the experiment.
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Bedingfield, J., Howard, M. & Thompson, R.W. The role of the adrenal glands in tonic immobility (TI) in chickens. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 16, 59–61 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337095
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