Position of operant cost affects blue foxes' time budget between sand floor and mesh floor

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 116, Issue 2-4, 2009, Pages 266-272

  Koistinen, Tarja ^a   Orjala, Hanna ^a,b   Mononen, Jaakko ^a   Korhonen, Hannu Tapio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Floor material; Fur farming; Preference; Vulpes lagopus

Indexed keywords

CANID; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FLOOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SAND; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

CANIDAE; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 57749111642     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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