Environmental enrichment for Old World primates with reference to the primate collection at Edinburgh Zoo

International Zoo Yearbook

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 131-139

  Dickie, L ^a  

^a ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Control; Environmental enrichment; Old World primates; Substrate; psychological space

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842826661     PISSN: 00749664     EISSN: 17481090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1090.1998.tb02895.x     Document Type: Article

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