Effects of enclosure size on activity and sleep of a hystricomorph rodent (Octodon degus)
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Octodon degus: a diurnal, social, and long-lived rodent.
Octodon degus is a moderate-sized, precocious, but slowly maturing, hystricomorph rodent from central Chile. We have used this species to study a variety of questions about circadian rhythms in a diurnal mammal that readily adapts to most laboratory settings. In collaboration with others, we have found that a number of fundamental features of circadian function differ in this diurnal rodent com...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0090-5054
DOI: 10.3758/bf03329541