Current guidelines pertaining to the housing of laboratory animals express caging standards for rodents in terms of minimum floor space and minimum height, relative to the body weight of the animal.

An animal shelter in New Hampshire found itself overwhelmed by hundreds of domestic mice last week when a man surrendered the pets at the facility after they had bred out of control in his care. The ...

In winter, if environmental factors are unfavorable, the Pacific pocket mouse may hibernate underground until spring brings better conditions. But if adequate food supplies are available, the mouse ...

In this project, funded by an AWI Refinement Grant, we tested whether raising male mice in partially divided cages affected aggression and behavioral performance from weaning through 180 days old in ...

During the last decade there have been vast improvements in the husbandry of large animals in our local zoos. Instead of living in the solitary cages that were formerly the norm, animals now more ...