Strength of preference for nesting material as environmental enrichment for laboratory mice

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 369-382

  Van De Weerd, H A ^a   Van Loo, P L P ^a   Van Zutphen, L F M ^a   Koolhaas, J M ^b   Baumans, V ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Enrichment; Mouse; Nesting material; Preference strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031913523     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(97)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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