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Chapter 7.5. Catching animals who have escaped (2007)

LAREF [Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum]

Abstract

Monkeys presumably escape not because they really want to leave their familiar home environment, but because something alarms them, such as an investigator trying to grab them with heavy leather gloves through the partially opened cage door. If they can trust you and you give them a chance to settle down, they will find their way back home without much coaxing?and you close the cage door, while praising the relieved monkey.

Published
2007

Animal Type
Nonhuman Primate
Topic
Handling, Human-Animal Interaction, Husbandry & Management

Citation
LAREF [Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum] 2007. Chapter 7.5. Catching animals who have escaped. In: Making Lives Easier for Animals in Research Labs: Discussions by the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum. Baumans, V., Coke, C., Green, J., Moreau, E., Morton, D., Patterson-Kane, E., Reinhardt, A., Reinhardt, V., Van Loo, P. (eds), 131-133. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

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