The cage preferences of laboratory rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 74-79

  Patterson Kane, E G ^a   Harper, D N ^a   Hunt, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cages; Enrichment; Housing; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HOUSING; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0035170155     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0023677011911390     Document Type: Article

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