Assessing the Value of Television as Environmental Enrichment for Individually Housed Rhesus Monkeys: A Behavioral Economic Approach

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 48-53

  Harris, Linda D ^a   Briand, Edward J ^a   Orth, Rushawn ^a   Galbicka, Gregory ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

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