Behavioural approaches to rodent management (1984)

Lawlor, M. M.

Abstract

Clear discussion of spatial needs to allow for basic, species-characteristic postures and behaviors. The use of the species ethogram when caging is designed means something more than enclosing a few vital function within a space designed for human convenience; it means giving careful consideration to each behavioural possibility inhibited or excluded by a given cage design and arriving at some justification for the exclusion beyond mere convenience.