Review on the Identification Methods of Laboratory Mice, Rats, Rabbits, and Guinea pigs

Abstract

Identification of laboratory animals is an essential step for operating an animal house/research laboratory efficiently. Recently, strong trends towards the ethics of animal welfare of laboratory animals used in research has made it important to review some known methods of marking them. Thus, some reliable ethical methods of identifying animals used in the laboratory are recommended. Overall, this article addresses the above issue in mice, rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs and recomendation ofvarious methods is given in Table 2.