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New laboratory animals from wild species: Breeding a laboratory stock of hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus L.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

R. M. Ranson
R. M. Ranson
Affiliation:
Bureau of Animal Population, Oxford University
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It has not yet been possible to breed hedgehogs in laboratory cages, but they have been bred and reared successfully in pens in the open, twenty-seven young being produced by five females in seven litters. The methods adopted in breeding and maintaining this stock are described.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , September 1941 , pp. 131 - 138
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1941

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