Preferences of minipigs for environmental enrichment objects

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 391-394

  Smith, Melody E ^a   Gopee, Neera V ^a   Ferguson, Sherry A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; MINIPIG; NONHUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; OBJECT RELATION; PREPUBERTY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 69549097878     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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