LABORATORY ANIMAL MEDICINE AND SCIENCE - SERIES II ...

4 LABORATORY ANIMAL MEDICINE AND SCIENCE - SERIES IIPRETESTPrior to viewing Rats and Mice: Care and Management, take time to assess your currentknowledge of care and management principles for rats and mice by answering the followingquestions. A post-test is available at the end of the program for review once you have completedthis autotutorial.1. Identify environmental parameters which need to be monitored and maintained, anddescribe adverse healtheffects when not maintained.2. List two major types of animal facility design.3. Describe the major types of rodent caging, giving advantages and disadvantages of each.4. List three types of bedding and describe potential health problems of each.5. Describe the basic food and water requirements of rats and of mice.6. Describe sanitation procedures and practices for rooms, caging, and equipment.7. Discuss methods to control or eliminate invertebrate and vertebrate pests and why this isimportant.8. Describe at least one method of restraint of rats and mice.9. Describe the ideal criteria or conditions for shipment of “clean” laboratory rodents.10. List problems with transporting animals from a primary holding area to a distant laboratory.11. Discuss the necessity for quarantine and daily observation of animals.12. Describe the estrous cycle and a method for monitoring mating.13. Discuss the effect of pheromones on reproduction in laboratory mice.14. Describe the three general types of euthanasia methods.