A mobile cage facilitates periodic social contact and exercise for singly caged adult Vervet monkeys

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 64-68

  Seier, J V ^a   De Lange, P W ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cercopithecus aethiops; Environmental enrichment; Exercise cage; Timed mating

Indexed keywords

CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029693054     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.1996.tb00195.x     Document Type: Article

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