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Crowding stress and violent injuries among behaviorally inhibited rhesus macaques (1998)

Boyce, W. T., O'Neill-Wagner, P. L., Price, C. S. et al.

Abstract

A rhesus group of 36 animals was kept during 6 'warm' months in a large outdoor enclosure, during 6 'cold' months confined in a building. During the 6-month period of confinement stress, a fivefold acceleration in [medically-attended] injury incidence was found.

Published
1998

Animal Type
Macaque, Nonhuman Primate
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Citation
Boyce, W. T., O'Neill-Wagner, P. L., Price, C. S. et al. 1998. Crowding stress and violent injuries among behaviorally inhibited rhesus macaques. Health Psychology 17, 285-289.

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