Behavioural and physiological differences between silver foxes selected and not selected for domestic behaviour

Animal Welfare

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-314

  Harri, M ^a   Mononen, Jaakko ^a   Ahola, L ^a   Plyusnina, I ^a,b   Rekila T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Attention seeking behaviour; Behavioural test; Silver fox; Stress; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; ANIMAL WELLBEING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOMESTICATION; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOX; GENOTYPE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPERTHERMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; SCORING SYSTEM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0041310974     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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