Training captive chimpanzees to cooperate for an anesthetic injection

Lab Animal

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 43-48

  Videan, Elaine N ^a   Fritz, Jo ^a   Murphy, James ^a   Borman, Rachel ^a   Smith, Heather F ^a   Howell, Sue ^a  

^a Primate Foundation Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; INJECTION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; INJECTIONS; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; LINEAR MODELS; PAN TROGLODYTES; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 22844446700     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0505-43     Document Type: Article

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