Housing and welfare in laboratory rats: Time-budgeting and pathophysiology in single-sex groups

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 335-360

  Hurst, J L ^a   Barnard, C J ^d   Hare, R ^d   Wheeldon, E B ^b   West, C D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0030221381     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0179     Document Type: Article

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