Play in Rats: Association across Contexts and Types, and Analysis of Structure
Play has been proposed as a promising indicator of positive animal welfare. We aimed to study play in rats across contexts (conspecific/heterospecific) and types (social: pinning, being pinned; solitary: scampering), and we investigated its structure using behavioral sequence analysis. Group-housed...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Animal Behavior and Cognition
2014-11-01
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| Series: | Animal Behavior and Cognition |
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| Online Access: | http://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/4/06.Melotti_etal_Final.pdf |