Short and long-term effects of a substantial change in cage size on individually housed, adult male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 319-330

  Kaufman, Brenda M ^a   Pouliot, Amber L ^a   Tiefenbacher, Stefan ^a   Novak, Melinda A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal behaviour; Activity; Cage size; Rhesus monkey; Tension

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CAPTIVE POPULATION; PRIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 4243129148     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2004.03.012     Document Type: Article

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