Relationship between hyponeophagia and adrenal cortex function in farmed foxes

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 779-783

  Rekilä, Teppo ^a   Harri, Mikko ^a   Jalkanen, Liisa ^a   Mononen, Jaakko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blue foxes; Fear; Feeding test; Human animal interaction; Silver foxes

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CREATINE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX FUNCTION; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOX; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032448206     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00232-7     Document Type: Article

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