During the animal training behavior test like Eight arm radial maze, I used to wear gloves during animal training some of my friends suggest that don't use gloves, if you gloves the animal doesn't feel your body temperature and it will take time to get habituate animals and the glove's smell also will affect the behavior.
Please suggest me which is best way to train the animal with or without using gloves
Animals can feel your temperature even wearing gloves. Gloves are meant to protect you from the animals and also the animals from you. You should just use them. Your friends assume that accustoming to your body temperature will make the assay easier. Plus the whole body smells so much to them that the surface of your hands is just negligible.
The best way to habituate the animals would be by handling (few minutes would be fine) every day, for few days, at the same time the assay will be performed.
The use of gloves is standard at many institutions, and are for both your health and the health of the animals so it's best to just get used to wearing them. I don't know of any empirical evidence showing that rodents, in particular, have an aversive reaction to the smell of latex.
Well, using gloves is an element of standardization. Therefore I would recommend to use them, and to try to use them in a standard, described way.
Thanks for all your contribution.. I am doing in standard way now.. thanks for all..
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