Quantitative evaluation of the motivation to access a running wheel or a water bath in farm mink

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 127-144

  Hansen, Steffen Werner ^a   Jensen, Margit Bak ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Demand functions; Environmental enrichment; Mink; Running wheel; Swimming water

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; MAMMAL; RESOURCE; WATER;

MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 33646134388     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.08.017     Document Type: Article

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