Rabbit preference for cages and pens with or without mirrors

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 116, Issue 2-4, 2009, Pages 273-278

  Dalle Zotte, Antonella ^a   Princz, Zoltán ^b   Matics, Zsolt ^b   Gerencsér, Zsolt ^b   Metzger, Szilvia ^b   Szendro, Zsolt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Group penned; Growing rabbits; Individually caged; Mirrors; Preference test

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; LAGOMORPH; PLASTIC; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; STOCKING DENSITY; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 57749113094     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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