Why is social behaviour in animals adversely affected by barren housing conditions?

为什么动物的社会行为会受到贫瘠的居住条件的不利影响？

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-05828
• 负责人: Mason, Georgia
• 金额: $ 3.72万
• 依托单位: University of Guelph
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=631010
• 关键词: Why; social; behaviour; animals; adversely

Impoverished environments, such as small barren cages, can adversely affect animals' interactions with each other. Interactions needed for productivity (e.g. mating, maternal care) can be impaired; interactions that reflect or cause good welfare (e.g. play) often decline; and aggression often increases. This holds for many species, but in laboratory mice, for instance, enriched-housed mice are better than barren-housed mice at producing and raising viable pups, and (especially if female) they fight less with cagemates.

贫穷的环境，如小而贫瘠的笼子，可能会对动物之间的相互作用产生不利影响。生产力所需的互动(例如交配、产妇护理)可能会受到损害；反映或导致良好福利的互动(例如游戏)往往会减少；攻击性往往会增加。这适用于许多物种，但在实验室小鼠中，例如，在繁殖和饲养可存活的幼鼠方面，有丰富住所的老鼠比没有住所的老鼠更好，而且(特别是如果是雌性的)它们更少与笼子打架。