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Environmental Enrichment for Laboratory Rodents: Animal Welfare and the Methods of Science

Abstract

Because of the difficulty of' establishing objective measures of laboratory rodents' psychological well-being, developing environmental enrichment programs that are actually beneficial to rodents destined to participate in laboratory research is particularly challenging. Many studies of effects of environmental complexity, social housing, and increases in cage size suggest that professional judgments as to the impact of diverse types of …

Authors

Galef BG

Journal

Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 267–280

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

October 1999

DOI

10.1207/s15327604jaws0204_2

ISSN

1088-8705