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 wastested in a preference test in Which the foxes could cho...
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fttartuunivojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/21822 2024-06-23T07:45:19+00:00 Farmed foxes prefer a cage with an unobstructed View Mononen, J Harri, M Rekilä, T 1996-12-01 application/pdf https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/SJLAS/article/view/21822 https://doi.org/10.23675/sjlas.v23i1.787 eng eng Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/SJLAS/article/view/21822/16550 https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/SJLAS/article/view/21822 doi:10.23675/sjlas.v23i1.787 Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science; Vol. 23 No. 1 (1996) 2002-0112 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1996 fttartuunivojs https://doi.org/10.23675/sjlas.v23i1.787 2024-06-04T03:10:17Z 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 wastested 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Alopex lagopus University of Tartu: ojs.utlib.ee |
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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 wastested 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. |
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Farmed foxes prefer a cage with an unobstructed View |
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Farmed foxes prefer a cage with an unobstructed View |
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Farmed foxes prefer a cage with an unobstructed View |
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Farmed foxes prefer a cage with an unobstructed View |
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Farmed foxes prefer a cage with an unobstructed View |
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farmed foxes prefer a cage with an unobstructed view |
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Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science |
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1996 |
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Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science; Vol. 23 No. 1 (1996) 2002-0112 |
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