Early experience with the farm environment and effects on later behaviour in silver Vulpes Abstract vulpes and blue foxes Alopex lagopus

Seventy-one silver fox and 141 blue fox cubs were exposed to constant visual contact with the farm environment from the age of 2 to 8 weeks. The exposure consisted in opening a door in the nest box facing the feed gang-way. Control cubs (33 silver and 77 blue foxes) were reared in similar but closed […]