Blue foxes' (Alopex lagopus) preferences between earth floor and wire mesh floor

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 38-53

  Koistinen, Tarja ^a   Ahola, Leena ^a   Mononen, Jaakko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Deprivation; Floor material; Fur farming

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CANID; FARM; FLOOR; TIME ALLOCATION;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 41149125622     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2007.05.011     Document Type: Article

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