Addressing nonhuman primate behavioral problems through the application of operant conditioning: Is the human treatment approach a useful model? (2007)

Bloomsmith, M. A., Marr, M. J., Maple, T. L.

Abstract

Training by the systematic application of operant conditioning has been widely applied in the care, management, exhibition, and study of nonhuman primates and many other species, but is less often used to control problematic animal behavior such as stereotyped behavior or self-injurious behavior... Virtually all the techniques found to be effective treatments of stereotypy and self-injurious behavior in humans are directly applicable to similar behaviors in captive nonhuman primates. Thus the human work can serve as a model for how we can enhance our attempts to address behavioral problems in captive nonhuman primates.