Publications

Sheep behavior: its importance in farming systems, handling, transport and pre-slaughter treatment

Year Published: 1976Animal Type: Sheep

Citation: Kilgour, R. 1976. Sheep behavior: its importance in farming systems, handling, transport and pre-slaughter treatment. in: Sheep Assembly and Transport Workshop. Truscott, G. M. C. a. T. F. H. (eds), xx-xx. Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Perth, Australia.

Environmental enrichment and crowding: Behavioral and hormonal effects

Environmental enrichment and available refuge did ameliorate the usual hormonal responses to crowding. [p. 740]

Year Published: 1976Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Stocking DensityAnimal Type: Gerbil, Rodent

Citation: Hull, E. M., Kastaniotis, C., L'Hommedieu, G. et al. 1976. Environmental enrichment and crowding: Behavioral and hormonal effects. Physiology and Behavior 17, 735-741.

The influence of handling on egg production, egg shell quality and avoidance behaviour of hens

Regular gentle-handling of chickens reduced fear and avoidance of humans.

Year Published: 1976Animal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Hughes, B. O., Black, A. J. 1976. The influence of handling on egg production, egg shell quality and avoidance behaviour of hens. British Poultry Science 17, 135-144.

Preference decisions of domestic hens for wire or litter floors

Caged hens show a preference for litter over wire floors.

Year Published: 1976Animal Type: Bird, Chicken

Citation: Hughes, B. O. 1976. Preference decisions of domestic hens for wire or litter floors. Applied Animal Ethology (Applied Animal Behaviour Science) 2, 155-165.

The Biology of Guinea Pigs: Behavior

Possibly related to, or derived from grooming and perhaps also involving an element of aggression is one animal grasping the hair of another in its teeth and pulling it out; the mouthful is often ingested. Hair pulling is a common...

Year Published: 1976Animal Type: Guinea Pig, Rodent

Citation: Harper, L. V. 1976. Behavior. In: The Biology of the Guinea Pig. Wagner, J. E. , Manning, P. J. (eds), 31-51. Academic Press, New York, NY.

Effects of age at differential housing and the duration of individual housing/grouping on intermale fighting behavior and adrenocortical activity in TO strain mice

When the mice were subjected to stress (e.g., open field exposure) corticosterone levels in single-housed subjects were consistently higher than in group-housed subjects.

Year Published: 1976Animal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Goldsmith, J. F., Brain, P. F., Benton, D. 1976. Effects of age at differential housing and the duration of individual housing/grouping on intermale fighting behavior and adrenocortical activity in TO strain mice. Aggressive Behavior 2, 307-323.

Home-cage wheel activity recording in mice

Laboratory mice run up to 16 km/24 h in running wheels.

Year Published: 1976Animal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Festing, M. F. W., Greenwood, R. 1976. Home-cage wheel activity recording in mice. Laboratory Animals 10, 81-85.

Habituation of object contact in socially-reared and isolated rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Rats reared in social isolation were found to contact fewer novel objects in an open-field than their socially reared litter mates. They also contacted a smaller variety of objects, and contacted them in different ways. Social animals showed more manipulatory...

Year Published: 1976Animal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Einon, D., Morgan, M. 1976. Habituation of object contact in socially-reared and isolated rats (Rattus norvegicus). Animal Behaviour 24, 415-420.

Effects of environment on morphology of rat cerebral cortex andhippocampus

Cortical depth differences were found between male rats exposed to enriched or impoverished environmental conditions for successively shorter times.

Year Published: 1976Animal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Diamond, M. C., Ingham, C. A., Johnson, R. E. et al. 1976. Effects of environment on morphology of rat cerebral cortex andhippocampus. Journal of Neurobiology 7, 75-85.

The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory Animals (5th ed): Husbandry

The basic principles applicable to the housing and caging of laboratory animals in general also applies to simians. It is, for example, essential to ensure that they have a clean environment and are kept at an ambient temperature and humidity...

Year Published: 1976Animal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Coid, C. R. 1976. Husbandry. In: The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory Animals (5th ed). UFAW [Universities Federation for Animal Welfare] (ed), 397-319. Churchill Livingstone, London, UK.