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cord-017024-7amhia06	Lidfors, Lena	The welfare of laboratory rabbits	2007		.txt	text/plain	11686	639	61	The aim of this chapter is to present the most recent knowledge about the laboratory rabbit's biology, behavioural needs, optimal environment, housing, feeding, care, handling, health and experimental techniques, in order to ensure their optimum welfare. Studies of natural, free-ranging and enclosed populations in Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom have shown that European wild rabbits live in small, stable, territorial breeding groups (Parer 1977 , Gibb et al. Both wild rabbits and domestic strains have reproductive seasonality, suckle their young only once every 24 h, show two main feeding periods at dawn and dusk, form breeding groups with separate linear dominance hierarchies among male and female members, and reproduce successfully with the female digging breeding burrows, building nests for their young and covering the entrance to the burrows with soil (Bell 1984) .	./cache/cord-017024-7amhia06.txt	./txt/cord-017024-7amhia06.txt