Assessing the effects of social environment on blood pressure and heart rates of baboons (1991)

Coelho, A. M., Carey, K. D., Shade, R. E.

Abstract

In the social companion condition, a subject was able to have visual, tactile, and auditory interactions with his companion through the wire mesh walls of the specially designed cages. When animals were housed with social companions their blood pressures were consistently lower than when they were either housed individually or with social strangers. ... Measurements of cardiovascular physiology obtained under social housing may more closely model normal physiology than ... individual housing.