A training plan to induce nursing in a female western lowland gorilla (1997)

Webb, T. D.

Abstract

This paper describes the effect of an operant conditioning training plan on maternal behavior/nursing with a 14-year-old mother-reared female gorilla. ... Discussions on how access to body parts, how manipulations of body parts, and how the stimulation of nursing were accomplished are included in this paper. [Training protocols are not described.]