Handling and isolation in three strains of rats affect open field, exploration, hoarding and predation

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1159-1164

  Rebouças, Ramiro C R ^a   Schmidek, Werner Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Exploratory behavior; Food hoarding; Handling; Insect predation; Invidual differences; Open field; Rat behavior; Social isolation; Strain differences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0343683387     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00312-0     Document Type: Article

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