Puzzle Feeders and Gum Feeders as Environmental Enrichment for Common Marmosets

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 27-31

  Roberts, R Lucille ^a   Roytburd, Luba A ^a   Newman, John D ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

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