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Social Nesting, Animal Welfare and Disease Monitoring
2021-03-22
Abstract excerpt
The assessment of welfare and disease progression in animal models is critical. Most tools rely on evaluating individual subjects, whereas social behaviors, also sensitive to acute illness, chronic diseases, or mental health, are scarcely monitored because of their complexity, are invasive, and time-consuming. We propose the evaluation of social nesting, a species-typical behavior naturally occurring in standard h...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0236932b-7eee-5d06-9bdf-d148a25e1849
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202103.0548.v1