The early ontogeny of bar-gnawing in laboratory gerbils

Animal Welfare

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 273-277

  Wiedenmayer, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Bar gnawing; Development; Gerbil; Housing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345621715     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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