Species differences in responses to captivity: Stress, welfare and the comparative method

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 713-721

  Mason, Georgia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CAPTIVE POPULATION; CAPTIVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; FECUNDITY; WILD POPULATION; ZOO;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL WELFARE; EVOLUTION; PET ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; PETS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78149362060     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.08.011     Document Type: Review

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