Enrichment: Animal Welfare and Experimental Outcomes

The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals: Eighth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 136-146

  Hubrecht, Robert ^a  

^a UFAW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animals used in research exposed to stressors; Animals, behaviour and physiology adapted towards natural ecosystems; Enrichment animal welfare and experimental outcomes; Enrichment promoting normal behaviour and reducing abnormal behaviour; Enrichment and evolutionary niches; Enrichment and quality of science; FELASA working group document validating new enrichment; Need for designing animal facilities basic needs of shelter, food, water and degree of environmental stability; Plasticity of neural system 'a combination of complex inanimate and social stimulation'; Variable implementation of enrichment reducing standardisation between sites, reduced replicability

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EID: 84871458973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318777.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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