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.

贫瘠的环境，比如小而贫瘠的笼子，会对动物之间的互动产生不利影响。生产力所需的相互作用（如交配、孕产妇保健）可能受到损害；反映或带来良好福利的互动（如游戏）经常减少；攻击性往往会增加。这对许多物种来说都成立，但以实验室老鼠为例，在繁殖和抚养幼崽方面，饲养丰富的老鼠比饲养贫瘠的老鼠更好，而且（尤其是雌性老鼠）它们与笼子里的同伴打架的次数更少。