Behavioural effects of environmental enrichment for individually caged rabbits

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 157-169

  Lidfors, Lena ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Rabbit enrichment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031009636     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(96)01141-0     Document Type: Article

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