#6 Farmed foxes prefer a cage with an unobstructed View
We have observed earlier that farmed blue foxes (Alopex lagopus) and silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) tend to avoid resting at those sites in their cages from which the view to the surroundings is obstmeted. In the present study this hypothesis was tested in a preference test in Which the foxes could ch...
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ftdatacite:10.23675/sjlas.v23i1.787 2023-05-15T13:19:49+02:00 #6 Farmed foxes prefer a cage with an unobstructed View Mononen, J Harri, M Rekilä, T 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.23675/sjlas.v23i1.787 http://sjlas.org/index.php/SJLAS/article/view/787 en eng Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences Text Article article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.23675/sjlas.v23i1.787 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z We have observed earlier that farmed blue foxes (Alopex lagopus) and silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) tend to avoid resting at those sites in their cages from which the view to the surroundings is obstmeted. In the present study this hypothesis was tested in a preference test in Which the foxes could choose between a cage with an unobstructed view and a cage with a partially obstructed view. Both blue foxes and silver foxes spent a smaller percentage of their daily active time in the cage with the obstructed view than in the cage with the unobstructed view. They almost exclusively preferred the cage with the unobstructed view as a resting site. Obstructed/unobstrueted View is a key feature of the cage environment that should be taken into consideration when designing housing systems for farmed foxes. : Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol 23 No 1 (1996) Text Alopex lagopus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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We have observed earlier that farmed blue foxes (Alopex lagopus) and silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) tend to avoid resting at those sites in their cages from which the view to the surroundings is obstmeted. In the present study this hypothesis was tested in a preference test in Which the foxes could choose between a cage with an unobstructed view and a cage with a partially obstructed view. Both blue foxes and silver foxes spent a smaller percentage of their daily active time in the cage with the obstructed view than in the cage with the unobstructed view. They almost exclusively preferred the cage with the unobstructed view as a resting site. Obstructed/unobstrueted View is a key feature of the cage environment that should be taken into consideration when designing housing systems for farmed foxes. : Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol 23 No 1 (1996) |
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