New laboratory animals from wild species: Breeding a laboratory stock of hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus L.)
- 1 September 1941
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 41 (2) , 131-138
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400012365
Abstract
It has not yet been possible to breed hedgehogs in laboratory cages, but they have been bred and reared successfully in pens in the open, twenty-seven young being produced by five females in seven litters. The methods adopted in breeding and maintaining this stock are described.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- VI. The Reproductive processes of certain mammals. Part VI. - The reproductive cycle of the female hedgehogPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character, 1934