Response to novel objects and foraging tasks by common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) female pairs

Lab Animal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 32-38

  Majolo, Bonaventura ^a,b   Buchanan Smith, Hannah M ^a   Bell, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CALLITHRIX JACCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; FORAGING; GENDER; GROOMING; GROUP DYNAMICS; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; MARMOSETS; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALLITRICHINAE; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE;

EID: 0037977882     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0303-32     Document Type: Article

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