Functional Analysis and Successful Treatment of a Captive Rhesus Macaque’s Disruptive Behavior

Functional analysis (FA) is a method developed and used by behavior analysts in human clinical settings to identify possible environmental variables that reinforce undesired behavior. FA is increasingly being applied to better understand the behavior of nonhuman animals. When training monkeys in a room with others, disruptive behavior displayed by neighboring monkeys can impede training […]

The primatologist as a behavioral engineer