Response to novelty in the laboratory Wistar rat, wild-captive WWCPS rat, and the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-151

  Pisula, Wojciech ^a   Turlejski, Krzysztof ^b   Stryjek, Rafał ^a,c   Nałeogonekcz Tolak, Aleksandra ^a   Grabiec, Marta ^b   Djavadian, Rouzanna L ^b  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c Helena Chodkowska University of Management and Law   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Domestication; Familiarization; Free exploration paradigm; Gray short tailed opossum; Norway rat; WWCPS

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CAPTIVE POPULATION; DOMESTICATION; HABITUATION; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RODENT; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; DOMESTICATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; HABITUATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; RAT; WILD TYPE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, WILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MONODELPHIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84865982600     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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