Environmental enrichment for mice (2004)

Brocklebank, S., Mendl, M., Nicol, C. J. et al.

Abstract

Behavioural responses of outbred and inbred mice to a range of potential enrichments (cloth impregnated with the smell of unfamiliar mice, hessian hammock, half a coconut shell, playback of bird song, control of standard cage) were studied. The results show that simple potential enrichments had large and widely varying effects on the behaviour of laboratory mice, and these were sometimes strain specific.