A preliminary study on the effects of limited access to an exercise pen on stereotypic pacing in circus tigers

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 355-361

  Nevill, Christian H ^a   Friend, Theodore H ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Pacing; Panthera tigris; Stereotypies

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CAPTIVE POPULATION; FELID; MOVEMENT; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS;

EID: 33751120680     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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