Effects of foraging enrichment on the behaviour of parrots

Animal Welfare

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 357-363

  Coulton, E ^a   Waran, N K ^a   Young, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Animal Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Contrafreeloading; Environmental enrichment; Foraging; Parrots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001157475     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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