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Hyponeophagia: A Measure of Anxiety in the Mouse
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Mice and rats, due to their innate cautiousness, are initially slow in consuming a novel food, particularly in a novel place. This hyponeophagia can readily be measured in the laboratory, even though laboratory animals are much less anxious than their wild counterparts
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Deacon, R. M. Hyponeophagia: A Measure of Anxiety in the Mouse. J. Vis. Exp. (51), e2613, doi:10.3791/2613 (2011).
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