Are the effects of enrichment due to the presence of multiple items or a particular item in the cages of laboratory rat?

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 72-82

  Abou Ismail, Usama A ^a  

^a Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Laboratory rats; Multiple enrichment; Pathology; Performance; Welfare

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MALE BEHAVIOR; PATHOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RODENT; SAMPLING; SLEEP;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 80052097087     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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