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Research to be described in this chapter was initiated by Conant (1971) when he called attention to the fact that cage-cleaning had arousing effects on numerous species of vertebrates at Philadelphia Zoo. His 1971 article focused exclusively on amphibians and reptiles, but his earliest experience along these lines was with mammals, as related in the following personal communication (1990) reproduced here by permission.
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Chiszar, D., Tomlinson, W.T., Smith, H.M., Murphy, J.B., Radcliffe, C.W. (1995). Behavioural consequences of husbandry manipulations: indicators of arousal, quiescence and environmental awareness. In: Warwick, C., Frye, F.L., Murphy, J.B. (eds) Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1222-2_9
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