A computer-controlled, long-term recording system for studying eating, drinking, and defecation behavior in miniature pigs

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 73-80

  Musial, Frauke ^a   Kowalski, Axel ^a   Enck, Paul ^b   Kalveram, Karl Theodor ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Heinrich H ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Defecation; Feeding behavior; Gastrocolonic response; Log survivorship function; Long term recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DEFECATION; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; EATING HABIT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; VIDEORECORDER;

EID: 0033457367     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(99)00163-8     Document Type: Article

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