Housing and care of monkeys and apes in laboratories: Adaptations allowing essential species-specific behaviour

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 221-242

  Roder E L ^a   Timmermans, P J A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Apes; Behaviour; Care; Housing; Monkeys; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; APE; BREEDING; CAGE; LABORATORY; LIFE HISTORY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES HABITAT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; AOTUS TRIVIRGATUS; CALLITRICHIDAE; CEBIDAE; CEBUS APELLA; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; HAMADRYAS; HOMINIDAE; MACACA; MACACA ARCTOIDES; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; SAGUINUS; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0036066852     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367702320162360     Document Type: Review

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