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Baby chicks like gentle pets—like really gentle

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Baby chicks like gentle pets—like really gentle
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Around this time of the year, your social media doom scrolling might be peppered with images of adorable children holding disgruntled yellow chicks. While the sight of puggy little hands wrapped a little too tightly around the Easter and spring icon might make you cringe, new research suggests that a different sort of human interaction is beneficial for the chicks. 



To investigate, a team of researchers used a conditioned place preference test. This assessment is based on the principle t

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