Clustered environmental enrichments induce more aggression and stereotypic behaviour than do dispersed enrichments in female mice

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 131, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 145-152

  Akre, Anne Kathrine ^a   Bakken, Morten ^a   Hovland, Anne Lene ^a   Palme, Rupert ^b   Mason, Georgia ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; Environmental enrichment; Familiarity; Mouse; Resource distribution; Social behaviour; Stereotypic behaviour; Stereotypy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; METABOLITE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR; STEROL;

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; MUS;

EID: 79953718740     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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