To determine the proper cage for a laboratory mouse, one must consider cage characteristics with regard to animal growth, morbidity rates, mortality rates, and reproductive performance 10.

Animal care personnel set up a breeding unit by placing one male and one female mouse in individually ventilated microisolator cages. Each breeding pair is offered rodent chow (NIH-31; Ziegler Bros., ...

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This is a rarity in primate research, and illustrates just how much remains to be known about these fascinating animals. Like all lemurs, mouse lemurs inhabit the island of Madagascar off the east ...

“The deer mouse (genus Peromyscus) is the most abundant mammal in North America and it occupies almost every type of ...

Infra-red beams are projected at 0.5" spacing across the cage on 2 levels. During movement, the beams are broken by the mouse, and this sends signals to the central computer. The beams can detect ...

Just logging each mouse into the shelter's database is a chore, never mind providing food, water and bedding. It's a lot of work for a facility that at most once took in 125 animals in one day.