Using odor cues to elicit a behavioral and hormonal response in zoo-housed African wild dogs

Zoo Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 144-149

  Rafacz, Michelle L ^a,b   Santymire, Rachel M ^b  

^a Chair Emeritus in the Business and Entrepreneurship Department at Columbia College Chicago   (United States)

^b Davee Center for Epidemiology and Endocrinology   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Fecal glucocorticoids; Lycaon pictus

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHEMISTRY; DOG; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FECAL GLUCOCORTICOIDS; FECES; LYCAON PICTUS; MALE; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ZOO ANIMAL;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FECAL GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LYCAON PICTUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DOGS; FECES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; ODORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84897527335     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: 10982361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoo.21107     Document Type: Article

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