Animals (Jul 2024)

Effects of Enclosure Complexity and Design on Behaviour and Physiology in Captive Animals

  • Andrew Smith,
  • Paul Rose,
  • Claudia Mettke-Hofmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14142028
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 14
p. 2028

Abstract

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Individual animals in managed populations are subject to controlled social and physical environmental conditions that impact their behaviour patterns, choice of social associates, ability to experience positive welfare states, and ultimately their overall health status and quality of life [...]

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