“Impoverished” rats weigh more than “Enriched” rats because they eat more
- 1 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Psychobiology
- Vol. 10 (6) , 537-541
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.420100607
Abstract
Net consumption measures indicated that rats reared individually in standard laboratory cages consume more food and water and gain weight more rapidly than do their littermates reared in groups in large toy‐filled cages.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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