Environmental Enrichment Reduces Signs of Boredom in Caged Mink

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Meagher, Rebecca K ^a   Mason, Georgia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APATHY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BOREDOM; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MINK; NONHUMAN; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BOREDOM; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MINK; MOTOR ACTIVITY; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA;

EID: 84869101040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049180     Document Type: Article

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