Low-cost environmental enrichment plan for laboratory macaques

Lab Animal

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 28-31

  Taylor, Whitney J ^a,b   Laudenslager, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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