Evaluation of the 'maximum price paid' as an index of motivational strength for farmed silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes)

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 258-279

  Hovland, Anne Lene ^a   Mason, Georgia ^b   Bøe, Knut Egil ^a   Steinheim, Geir ^a   Bakken, Morten ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Fox; Maximum price; Motivation; Operant methods; Social contact

Indexed keywords

CANID; CAPTIVE POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CANIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 33748743282     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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