Group housing of farmed silver fox cubs

Animal Welfare

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-47

  Ahola, Leena ^a   Mononen, J ^a   Pyykonen T ^a   Miskala, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

ACTH test; Animal welfare; Group housing; Physiology; Silver fox; Stereotypies

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BITE WOUND; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOX; GROWING SEASON; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES; STEREOTYPY; STRESS; WEANING;

ANIMALIA; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 32344447878     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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