Environmental Enrichment for Rhesus Macaques: A Cost-Effective Exercise Cage

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 14-16

  Storey, Patricia L ^a   Turner, Patricia V ^a,b   Tremblay, Joan L ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; MACACA; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GREAT BRITAIN; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MACACA MULATTA; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033766323     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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