Trade-off between floor level and floor material in farmed silver foxes

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 87-95

  Harri, Mikko ^a   Kasanen, Sari ^a   Mononen, Jaakko ^a   Ahola, Leena ^a   Sepponen, Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Floor height; Preference test; Sand floor; Vulpes vulpes; Wire mesh floor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOX; HABITUATION; HEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; SAND; SOLID;

CANIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0035853179     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00149-2     Document Type: Article

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