A comparison of personality in the common and Bolivian squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus and Saimiri boliviensis)

Authors: Vanessa A. D. Wilson, Miho Inoue-Murayama, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: agreeableness, animal ethology, animal personality, assertiveness, likert scales, monkeys, neuroticism, openness to experience, phylogenesis, primates (nonhuman)

2018

A cage-based training, cognitive testing and enrichment system optimized for rhesus macaques in neuroscience research

Authors: A. Calapai, M. Berger, M. Niessing, K. Heisig, R. Brockhausen, S. Treue, A. Gail

Publication/Journal: Behavior Research Methods

Keywords: acquisition, animal, animal welfare, automated testing, baboons papio-papio, behavioral management, cognitive neuroscience, computerized test systems, cortex, environmental enrichment, experimental, housing, macaca-mulatta, mathematical, monkey, mt neurons, non-human primates, parietal, performance, psychology, receptive-field, representation

2017

Differential relationships between chronic hormone profiles in pregnancy and maternal investment in rhesus monkey mothers with hair loss in the neonatal period

Authors: Amanda M. Dettmer, Kendra Rosenberg, Mark T. Menard, Saif N. El-Mallah, Ruth A. Woodward, Stephen J. Suomi, Jerrold S. Meyer

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: alopecia, hair loss, infant growth, maternal investment, pregnancy

2017

Hormonal correlates of development and natal dispersal in wild female owl monkeys (Aotus azarae) of Argentina

Authors: Margaret Corley, Claudia Valeggia, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: dispersal, ovulatory cycling, owl monkey, reproductive suppression, sexual maturity, social monogamy

2017

Mechanisms underlying cognitive bias in nonhuman primates

Authors: B. M. Perdue

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: *cognitive bias, affect, cognition, contrast effect, emotion, judgment task, monkey

2017

A protocol for training group-housed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to cooperate with husbandry and research procedures using positive reinforcement

Authors: Caralyn Kemp, Harriet Thatcher, David Farningham, Claire Witham, Ann MacLarnon, Amanda Holmes, Stuart Semple, Emily J. Bethell

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: 3rs, group training, macaque, positive reinforcement training, primates, stationing

2017

Proximity and animal welfare in the context of tourist interactions with habituated dolphins

Authors: L. Bach, M. Burton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Keywords: animal ethics, bottle-nosed dolphins, choice experiments, choice modelling, conceptual-framework, conservation, ecotourism, green & sustainable science & technology, hospitality, human/dolphin, interaction, leisure, management, national-park, sport &, sustainability, tourism, tursiops-truncatus, western-australia, wildlife

2017

Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) displaying self-injurious behavior show more sleep disruption than controls

Authors: Lauren L. Stanwicks, Amanda F. Hamel, Melinda A. Novak

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: nighttime activity, self-injurious behavior, sleep

2017

Socialization of adult owl monkeys (Aotus sp.) in Captivity

Authors: Lawrence E. Williams, C. S. Coke, J. L. Weed

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: aotus, behavioral management, owl monkey, pair housing, psychological well-being, socializations

2017

Visitor effect on the behavior of a group of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) maintained at an island in Lake Catemaco, Veracruz/Mexico

Authors: Sergio Pérez-Galicia, Manuel Miranda-Anaya, Domingo Canales-Espinosa, Jairo Muñoz-Delgado

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: actimetry, activity response, behavioral changes, captivity

2017

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