Responses of farmed silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) to excessive food availability: Implications for using food as a yardstick resource in motivation tests

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 170-178

  Hovland, Anne Lene ^a   Mason, Georgia ^b   Ahlstrøm, Øystein ^a   Bakken, Morten ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appetite; Food; Motivation; Operant methods; Silver fox; Yardstick

Indexed keywords

CANID; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; RESOURCE;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 35448967883     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.10.012     Document Type: Article

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