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A Protocol for Housing Mice in an Enriched Environment
Published on: June 8, 2015
Environmental enrichment does not disrupt standardisation of animal experiments
1Division of Animal Welfare and Ethology, Institute of Veterinary-Physiology, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany. hanno.wuerbel@vetmed.uni-giessen.de
ALTEX
|October 20, 2009
Abstract:
Environmental enrichment can prevent abnormal behaviours and improve the well-being of laboratory mice, but concerns have been raised that it might disrupt the standardisation of experiments. Based on a multi-laboratory study, I show that animal welfare can be improved by environmental enrichment without disrupting standardisation.

