Validation of an automatic system (doublecage) for detecting the location of animals during preference tests

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-84

  Tsai, P P ^a   Nagelschmidt, N ^a   Kirchner, J ^a   Stelzer, H D ^a   Hackbarth, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic system; Environmental improvement; Group housing; Preference test

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DOUBLECAGE AUTOMATIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ETHOLOGY; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84858416958     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2011.011072     Document Type: Article

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