The Welfare of Laboratory Animals

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kaliste, Eila (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Animal Welfare, 2
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Veterinary medicine.; Behavioral sciences.; Zoology.; Animal genetics.; Animal physiology.; Life Sciences.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Behavioral Sciences.; Animal Physiology.; Veterinary Medicine.

Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have the knowledge and resources to be able to offer the b est management systems for their farm animals, as well as potentially being able to offer plentiful resources for compani...

Table of Contents:

• General Principles for Maintenance and Use of Laboratory Animals
• Animal welfare - an introduction
• Research, animals and welfare. Regulations, alternatives and guidelines
• Infections in laboratory animals: Importance and control
• Housing, care and environmental factors
• Nutrition and animal welfare
• Experimental procedures: General principles and recommendations
• The Welfare of Different Species
• The welfare of laboratory mice
• The welfare of laboratory rats
• The welfare of laboratory guinea pigs
• The welfare of laboratory rabbits
• The welfare of laboratory dogs
• The welfare of pigs and minipigs
• The welfare of non-human primates
• Animal welfare issues under laboratory constraints, an ethological perspective: rodents and marmosets.