Social and husbandry factors affecting the prevalence and severity of barbering ("whisker trimming") by laboratory mice

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 263-282

  Garner, Joseph P ^a,b   Dufour, Brett ^a   Gregg, Laura E ^a   Weisker, Sandra M ^a   Mench, Joy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Barbering; Dominance; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Stereotypy

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL WELFARE; DOMINANCE; RODENT; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 7044228206     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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