The effects of resource distribution on behaviour in pair housed silver fox vixens (Vulpes vulpes) subsequent to mixing

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 67-74

  Akre, Anne Kathrine ^a   Hovland, Anne Lene ^a   Bakken, Morten ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aggression; Play; Silver fox; Social behaviour; Social housing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTIFICIAL DIET; BODY MASS; CANID; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LOCOMOTION; NEST BOX; PAIR BOND; PLAY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; WEIGHT; WOUNDING;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 77954657668     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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