Locomotor activity and defecation of rats observed alone and in pairs in repeated open-field sessions

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 86, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1179-1184

  Weijers, Heinz Gerd ^a   Weyers, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DEFECATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEFECATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL FACILITATION;

EID: 0032093030     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.86.3c.1179     Document Type: Article

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