Correlates of androgens in wild male Barbary macaques: Testing the challenge hypothesis

Authors: Alan V. Rincon, Laëtitia Maréchal, Stuart Semple, Bonaventura Majolo, Ann MacLarnon

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: androgens, barbary macaques, challenge hypothesis, male-infant affiliation, rank instability

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

Emotion Evaluation and Response Slowing in a Non-Human Primate: New Directions for Cognitive Bias Measures of Animal Emotion?

Authors: E. J. Bethell, A. Holmes, A. MacLarnon, S. Semple

Publication/Journal: Behavioral Sciences

Keywords: *cognitive bias, animal welfare, anxiety, appraisal theory, attention bias, attentional bias, decision-making, emotion evaluation, emotional stroop, faces, facial expressions, freeze, monkeys, multidisciplinary, primate, psychology, response slowing, rhesus macaque, rhesus macaques, social attention, threat cues, welfare

2016

Investigating Potential Effects of the Contraceptive Implanon on the Behavior of Free-Ranging Adult Female Barbary Macaques

Authors: Amanda M. Maijer, Stuart Semple

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: barbary macaques, contraception

2016

An investigation into the use of music as potential auditory enrichment for moloch gibbons (Hylobates moloch)

Authors: Emma K. Wallace, Mark Kingston-Jones, Matthew Ford, Stuart Semple

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: enrichment, gibbons, individual differences, music

2013

Cognitive bias in a non-human primate: husbandry procedures influence cognitive indicators of psychological well-being in captive rhesus macaques

Authors: E. J. Bethell, A. Holmes, A. Maclarnon, S. Semple

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, capture, emotion, enrichment, husbandry, procedures, rhesus macaque

2012

Evidence that displacement activities facilitate behavioural transitions in ring-tailed lemurs

Authors: Victoria Buckley, Stuart Semple

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: displacement activity, lemur catta, motivation, ring-tailed lemur, self-scratching

2012

Impacts of Tourism on Anxiety and Physiological Stress Levels in Wild Male Barbary Macaques

Authors: L. Maréchal, S. Semple, B. Majolo, M. Qarro, M. Heistermann, A. MacLarnon

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: anxiety, impact, interaction, macaca sylvanus, stress, tourism

2011

Social capital and physiological stress levels in free-ranging adult female rhesus macaques

Authors: L. J. N. Brent, S. Semple, C. Dubuc, M. Heistermann, A. MacLarnon

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: affiliation, fecal glucocorticoids, indirect connections, rhesus macaques, social capital, social networks

2011

Correlates of self-directed and stereotypic behaviours in captive red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus torquatus)

Authors: Lisa Reamer, Zena Tooze, Claire Coulson, Stuart Semple

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: anxiety, primate, self-directed behavior, self-directed behaviour, semi-free ranging environment, stereotypic behavior, stereotypic behaviour, stress

2010

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