Vasectomy as a birth control modality for captive chimpanzees

Lab Animal

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 45-48

  Hoffman, Kathleen ^a   Howell, Sue ^a   Schwandt, Melanie ^a   Fritz, Jo ^a  

^a Primate Foundation Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH CONTROL; BREEDING; CHIMPANZEE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VASECTOMY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; CONTRACEPTION; METHODOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONTRACEPTION; GUIDELINES; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; VASECTOMY;

EID: 0036715561     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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