Rehabilitation and Release of Chimpanzees on a Natural Island: Methods hold promise for other primates as well

Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-7

  Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy ^a,b,c   Hsu, Minna J ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b IWRC   (South Korea)

^c S M Govindasamy Nayakkar Mem F ^*  (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Island release; Liberia; Pan troglodytes; Rehabilitation; Socialization

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0033409839     PISSN: 10712232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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