Positive reinforcement training as enrichment for singly housed rhesus macaques (Macaca )

Animal Welfare

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 307-313

  Baker, K C ^a   Bloomsmith, M A ^b   Neu, K ^b   Griffis, C ^b   Maloney, M ^c  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DISNEY S ANIMAL KINGDOM   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behavioural management; Human interaction; Laboratory primates; Positive reinforcement training; Single housing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LABORATORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77955633810     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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