The use and perceived importance of three resources which provide caged laboratory mice the opportunity for extended locomotion

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 353-367

  Sherwin, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost; Enrichment; Housing; Mouse; Running wheel; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031889555     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(97)00049-X     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Antipas, A.J., Madison, D.M., Ferraro, J.S., 1990. Circadian rhythms in the short-tailed shrew, Blarina brevicauda. Phys. Behav. 48, 255-260.
2. Bauman, R.A., 1992. The effects of wheel running, a light/dark cycle and the instrumental cost of food on the intake of food in a closed economy. Phys. Behav. 52, 1077-1083.
3. Baumans, V., Stafleu, F.R., Bouw, J., 1987. Testing housing systems for mice - the value of a preference test. Z. Versuchstierkd. 29, 9-14.
4. Belke, T.W., Heyman, G.M., 1994. A matching law analysis of the reinforcing efficacy of wheel running in rats. Anim. Learn. Behav. 22, 267-274.
5. Brant, D.H., Kavanau, J.L., 1964. 'Unrewarded' exploration and learning of complex mazes by wild and domestic mice. Nature 204, 267-269.
6. Brant, D.H., Kavanau, J.L., 1965. Exploration and movement patterns of the canyon mouse Peromyscus crinitus in an extensive laboratory enclosure. Ecology 46, 452-461.
7. Brener, J., Phillips, K., Sherwood, A., 1983. Energy expenditure during response-dependent and response-independent food delivery in rats. Psychophysiology 20, 384-392.
8. Collier, G., Hirsch, E., 1971. Reinforcing properties of spontaneous activity in the rat. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 77, 155-160.
9. Collier, G.H., Johnson, D.F., Naveira, J., CyBulski, K.A., 1989. Ambient temperature and food costs: effects on behavior patterns in rats. Am. J. Physiol. 257, R1328-1334.
10. Collier, G.H., Johnson, D.F., CyBulski, K.A., McHale, C.A., 1990. Activity patterns in rats (Rattus norvegicus) as a function of the cost of access to four resources. J. Comp. Psych. 1, 53-65.
11. Cowan, P.E., 1977. Systematic patrolling and orderly behaviour of rats during recovery from deprivation. Anim. Behav. 25, 171-184.
12. Dawkins, M.S., 1978. Welfare and the structure of a battery cage: size and cage floor preferences in domestic hens. Br. Vet. J. 134, 469-475.
13. Dawkins, M.S., 1990. From an animal's point of view: motivation, fitness and animal welfare. Behav. Brain. Sci. 13, 1-61.
14. Dawkins, M.S., 1988. Behavioural deprivation: a central problem in animal welfare. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 20, 209-225.
15. DeCoursey, P.J., 1986. Light-sampling behavior in photoentrainment of a rodent circadian rhythm. J. Comp. Physiol. 159, 161-169.
16. DeCoursey, P.J., Menon, S.A., 1991. Orcadian photo-entrainment in a nocturnal rodent: quantitative measurement of light sampling activity. Anim. Behav. 41, 781-785.
17. De Kock, L.L., Roha, I., 1971. Observations on the use of the exercise wheel in relation to the social rank and hormonal conditions in the Bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus), and the Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus), Z. Tierpsychol. 29, 180-195.
18. Donovan, B.T., 1985. Wheel-running during anoestrus and oestrus in the ferret. Phys. Behav. 34, 825-829.
19. Dunbar, R.I.M., Dunbar, P., 1988. Maternal time budgets of gelada baboons. Anim. Behav. 36, 970-980.
20. Eayrs, J.T., 1954. Spontaneous activity in the rat. Br. J. Anim. Behav. 2, 25-30.
21. Faure, J.-M., 1986. Operant determination of the cage and feeder size preferences of the laying hen. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 15, 325-336.
22. Festing, M.F.W., Greenwood, R., 1976. Home-cage wheel activity recording in mice. Lab. Anim. 10, 81-85.
23. Galef, B.G., Durlach, P., 1993. Should large rats be housed in large cages?. Canadian Psychology 34, 203-207.
24. Hill, W.L., Rovee-Collier, C., Collier, G., Wasserloos, L., 1986. Time budgets in growing chicks. Phys. Behav. 37, 353-360.
25. Hurst, J.L., Hall, S., Roberst, R., Christian, C., 1996. Social organization in the aboriginal house mouse, Mus spretus Lataste: behavioural mechanisms underlying the spatial dispersion of competitors. Anim. Behav. 51, 327-344.
26. Kavanau, J.L., 1966. Wheel-running preferences of mice. Z. Tierpsychol. 23, 858-866.
27. Kavanau, J.L., 1967. Behavior of captive white-footed mice. Science 155, 1623-1639.
28. Kavanau, J.L., 1971. Locomotion and activity phasing of some medium-sized mammals. J. Mammol. 52, 386-403.
29. Kennedy, G.A., Hudson, R., Armstrong, S.M., 1994. Circadian wheel running activity in two strains of domestic rabbit. Phys. Behav. 55, 385-389.
30. Kienle, H., Bessei, W., 1993. Floor space preferences in growing rabbits as determined by operant conditioning techniques. Proc. 3rd Int. Cong. Applied Ethology. Nichelmann, M., Wieranga, H.K., Braun, S. (Eds.), Humboldt University, Berlin, pp. 520-523
31. Lagadic, H., Faure, J.-M., 1987. Preferences of domestic hens for cage size and floor types as measured by operant conditioning. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 19, 147-155.
32. Lyne, A.G., 1981. Activity rhythms in the marsupials Isoodon macrourus and Perameles nasuta in captivity. Aust. J. Zool. 29, 821-838.
33. Mather, J.G., 1981. Wheel-running activity: a new interpretation. Mamm. Rev. 11, 41-51.
34. Melcer, T., Timberlake, W., 1986. Running and drinking by rats outside the schedule session. Behav. Proc. 13, 29-37.
35. Miller, D.E., 1980. Temporal patterns of mortor activity of chicks during the early post-weaning hatching period. Behav. Proc. 5, 201-210.
36. Mitchell, S.H., Brener, J., 1991. Energetic and motor responses to increasing force requirements. J. Exptl. Psych. Anim. Behav. Proc. 17, 174-185.
37. Mrosovsky, N., 1964. The performance of dormice and other hibernators on tests of hunger motivation. Behaviour 121, 454-469.
38. Muller-Schwarze, D., Stagge, B., Muller-Schwarze, C., 1982. Play behavior: persistence, decrease and energetic consumption during food shortage in deer fawns. Science 215, 85-87.
39. Nicol, C.J., Guilford, T., 1991. Exploratory activity as a measure of motivation in deprived hens. Anim. Behav. 41, 333-341.
40. Packer, W.C., 1966. Wheel-running behaviour in the marsupial Sarcophilus. J. Mammol. 47, 698-701.
41. Premack, D., 1962. Reversibility of the reinforcement relation. Science 136, 255-257.
42. Premack, D., Kintsch, W., 1970. A description of free responding in the rat. Learn. Motiv. 1, 321-336.
43. Price, E.O., 1971. Effect of food deprivation on activity of the Least Weasel. J. Mammol. 52, 636-640.
44. Richter, C.P., 1927. Animal behavior and internal drives. Quart. Rev. Biol. 2, 307-343.
45. Richards, M.P.M., 1966. Activity measured by running wheels and observation during the oestrous cycle, pregnancy and pseudo-pregnancy in the golden hamster. Anim. Behav. 14, 450-458.
46. Roper, T.J., 1976. Sex differences in circadian wheel running rhythms in the Mongolian gerbil. Phys. Behav. 17, 549-551.
47. Rovee-Collier, C., Collier, G., Egert, K., Jackson, D., 1993. Developmental consequences of diet and activity. Phys. Behav. 53, 353-359.
48. Sherwin, C.M., 1996. Laboratory mice persist in gaining access to resources: a method of assessing the importance of environmental features. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 48, 203-213.
49. Sherwin, C.M., Nicol, C.J., 1995. Changes in meal patterning by mice measure the cost imposed by natural obstacles. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 43, 291-306.
50. Sherwin, C.M., Nicol, C.J., 1996a. Reorganisation of behaviour in laboratory mice (Mus musculus) with varying cost of access to resources. Anim. Behav. 51, 1087-1093.
51. Sherwin, C.M., Nicol, C.J., 1996b. Behavioural demand functions of caged laboratory mice. Mus musculus, for additional space. Anim. Behav. 53, 67-74.
52. Sokal, R.R., Rohlf, F.J., 1981. Biometry. 2nd Edn. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.
53. Squibb, R.L., Licwinko, M., Squibb, R.E., 1978. Lysine deficiency and voluntary wheel running in the chick. Poult. Sci. 57, 1165.
54. Timberlake, W., Wozny, M., 1979. Reversibility of reinforcement between eating and running by schedule changes: a comparison of hypotheses and models. Anim. Learn. Behav. 7, 461-469.