Changing Human Behavior to Improve Animal Welfare: A Longitudinal Investigation of Training Laboratory Animal Personnel about Heterospecific Play or “Rat Tickling”

SIMPLE SUMMARY: When laboratory rats are first handled, they can experience fear and stress, which negatively influences animal welfare. Rat tickling, a positive handling technique, can improve these outcomes. However, despite evidence for rat tickling’s animal welfare benefits, the technique is rar...

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Autores principales: LaFollette, Megan R., Cloutier, Sylvie, Brady, Colleen M., O’Haire, Marguerite E., Gaskill, Brianna N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824457
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10081435

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