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Effects of Laboratory Housing on Exploratory Behaviour, Novelty Discrimination and Spatial Reference Memory in a Subterranean, Solitary Rodent, the Cape Mole-Rat (Georychus capensis)

A large number of laboratory and field based studies are being carried out on mole-rats, both in our research group and others. Several studies have highlighted the development of adverse behaviours in laboratory animals and have emphasised the importance of enrichment for captive animals. Hence we...

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Autores principales: Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen, Scheibler, Anne-Gita, Charles Bennett, Nigel, Amrein, Irmgard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24040422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075863

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