Effects of altered enclosure size and substrates on squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus sciureus) behavior

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 15-19

  Marriott, Bernadette M ^a   Meyers, David M ^b  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SQUIRREL MONKEY; SUNLIGHT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBSERVATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SAIMIRI; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; SAIMIRI; SAIMIRI SCIUREUS SCIUREUS;

EID: 29144434659     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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