英国诺丁汉大学中国政策研究中心研究人员预测，由于金融危机使美日欧等发达国家的经济进入了负增长，中国经济最迟将在2010年超过日本，也很有可能在2009年就实现这个目标，成为世界第二大经济体。 请看《中国日报》的报道： China is likely to overtake Japan to ...

Vent pecking and cannibalism are an ongoing concern for free-range egg producers. But what factors are causing them? Philip Clarke reviews a new study from Bristol University. Conventional wisdom ...

If you don’t have your own backyard flock, you may not believe that the chicken pecking order is real, let alone that it’s even more complicated than we give it credit for. Chickens are one of ...

When someone tells you where you stand in a pecking order, they are allocating you a place in a hierarchy. You may not be happy about it, but at least you know your place! Dominance hierarchies are ...

Gentle pecking of feathers where the recipient is calm and not reacting is a normal social behaviour of birds and should never worry anyone. But in situations where the pecking is more violent, and ...