How do rats respond to playing radio in the animal facility?

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 141-144

  Krohn, Thomas C ^a   Salling, Bo ^a   Hansen, Axel Kornerup ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal facilities; Environmental tolerance; Housing; Laboratory animal welfare; Rodents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; RADIO; RATS; SOUND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80054710822     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2011.010067     Document Type: Article

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