Reducing stress and stereotypic behaviors in captive female pygmy slow lorises (Nycticebus pygmeaus)

Authors: Josue Alejandro, Yumi Yamanashi, Kei Nemoto, Keiko Mouri, Ching-wen Huang, Fred B. Bercovitch, Michael A. Huffman

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: all-female groups, animal welfare, fecal glucocorticoids, social housing, stereotypic behaviors, Xanthonycticebus

2023

Do Monkeys Want Audio or Visual Stimuli? Interactive Computers for Choice with White-Faced Sakis in Zoos

Authors: Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Vilma Kankaanpää

Publication/Journal: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Keywords: animal-computer-interaction, audio analysis, monkey, preference, primate, stimuli, visual

2022

May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?

Authors: Lucas Belchior Souza de Oliveira, Angélica da Silva Vasconcellos

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: animal welfare, environmental enrichment, five domains model, primates, unpredictability

2022

Assessing the potential impact of zoo visitors on the welfare and cognitive performance of Japanese macaques

Authors: Sarah M Huskisson, Christina R Doelling, Stephen R Ross, Lydia M Hopper

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, attention bias, monkey, touchscreen, visitor effect, zoo research

2021

Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys

Authors: Sofia Ingrid Fredrika Forss, Alba Motes-Rodrigo, Pooja Dongre, Tecla Mohr, Erica van de Waal

Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition

Keywords: curiosity, habituation, human interaction, neophobia, vervet monkey

2021

Do zoo visitors induce attentional bias effects in primates completing cognitive tasks?

Authors: Sarah M Huskisson, Stephen R Ross, Lydia M Hopper

Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition

Keywords: attention bias, cognition, match-to-sample, monkey, visitor effect, welfare

2021

Happiness, Welfare, and Personality in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Authors: Lauren M Robinson, Natalie K Waran, Ian Handel, Matthew C Leach

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: coping, monkey, psychometrics, temperament, validation

2021

Social relationships among captive male pygmy slow lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus): Is forming male same‐sex pairs a feasible management strategy?

Authors: Yumi Yamanashi, Kei Nemoto, Josue Alejandro

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: affiliative, aggression, fecal glucocorticoid metabolite, management strategies, same-sex grouping, slow loris, social group

2021

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

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