How Enrichment Affects Exploration Trade-Offs in Rats: Implications for Welfare and Well-Being
Abstract
We propose that a comparative approach to well-being could be the key to understanding 'the good life.' Inspired by current theories of human well-being and animal welfare, we designed a novel test of exploration behavior. Environmentally and socially enriched Long-Evans female rats (N = 60) were trained in four simultaneously presented arms of an eight-arm radial-maze. They learned to expect successes in two arms and failures in the other two....
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Title
How Enrichment Affects Exploration Trade-Offs in Rats: Implications for Welfare and Well-Being
Published Date
Dec 23, 2013
Journal
Volume
8
Issue
12
Pages
e83578 - e83578
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