Group size and space allocation in farmed juvenile blue foxes (Alopex lagopus)

Animal Welfare

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Ahola, Leena ^a   Mononen, J ^a   Pyykonen T ^a   Mohaibes, M ^a   Hanninen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behaviour; Blue fox; Group housing; Physiology; Space allocation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CREATININE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BITE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOX; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEART VOLUME; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCAR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOBIOLOGY; STOCKING DENSITY;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; LAGOPUS; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 13644260106     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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