Effect of Inside-cage and Outside-cage Environment on Behaviour Test Performance of Blue Foxes (Alopex lagopus)
作者:
Teppo Rekilä,
Jaakko Mononen,
Mikko Harri,
期刊:
Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A — Animal Science
(Taylor Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 46,
issue 4
页码: 247-252
ISSN:0906-4702
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1080/09064709609415877
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: behavioural tests;cage environment;farm foxes;fur farming;welfare
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
In-cage reaction tests, the open field test and daily activity in the home cage were used to assess the effect of the internal design and location of cages on the behaviour of juvenile blue foxes (Alopex lagopus) during the growing season. The inclusion of nest boxes or resting platforms affected the behaviour of farmed blue foxes, but to a lesser extent than did the location of the animal in the cage row, i.e. the environment outside the cage itself. This study demonstrated that the actual environment in which the farm foxes live may be far larger than the cage interior itself, and that attempts to improve housing design should take into consideration the environment outside the cage to a greater extent than has heretofore been the case.
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