Influence of visitor presence on the behaviour of captive lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) housed in Indian zoos

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 341-352

  Mallapur, Avanti ^a,b   Sinha, Anindya ^b   Waran, Natalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; India; Lion tailed macaques; Visitors; Zoos

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CAPTIVE POPULATION; PRIMATE; ZOO;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA SILENUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 26444600300     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.02.012     Document Type: Article

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