Fecal Glucocorticoid Measurements and Their Relation to Rearing, Behavior, and Environmental Factors in the Population of Pileated Gibbons (Hylobates pileatus) Held in European Zoos

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1161-1178

  Pirovino, Mirella ^a   Heistermann, Michael ^c   Zimmermann, Nina ^a   Zingg, Robert ^d   Clauss, Marcus ^a   Codron, Daryl ^a   Kaup, Franz Josef ^c   Steinmetz, Hanspeter W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHESTER ZOO   (United Kingdom)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^d Zoo Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavioral abnormalities; Enclosure size; Fecal cortisol metabolites; Hand rearing; Hylobates pileatus; Pileated gibbon; Stress; Visitors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE CLASS; CAPTIVE POPULATION; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECES; IMMUNOASSAY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METABOLITE; PRIMATE; REARING; RED LIST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STEROID; ZOO;

EUROPE;

HYLOBATES; HYLOBATES PILEATUS; HYLOBATIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 80053576726     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-011-9532-9     Document Type: Article

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