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How Enrichment Affects Exploration Trade-Offs in Rats: Implications for Welfare and Well-Being

We propose that a comparative approach to well-being could be the key to understanding ‘the good life.’ Inspired by current theories of human well-being and animal welfare, we designed a novel test of exploration behavior. Environmentally and socially enriched Long-Evans female rats (N = 60) were tr...

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Autores principales: Franks, Becca, Champagne, Frances A., Higgins, E. Tory
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/PMC3871681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24376721
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083578