Refining the pole-and-collar method of restraint: Emphasizing the use of positive training techniques with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-68

  McMillan, Jennifer L ^a   Perlman, Jaine E ^a   Galvan, Adriana ^a,b   Wichmann, Thomas ^a,b   Bloomsmith, Mollie A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLE AND COLLAR METHOD; REINFORCEMENT; RHESUS MONKEY; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; REWARD;

EID: 84892517011     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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