Cardboard and rubber objects as means of environmental enrichment for rabbits
Submitted: 2020-08-13
|Accepted: 2021-01-05
|Published: 2021-06-30
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Keywords:
rabbits, behaviour, Oryctolagus cuniculus, welfare
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001
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