Effects of training in relation to welfare and coping with routine husbandry procedures (2002)

Bassett, L., McKinley, J., Buchanan-Smith, H. M. et al.

Abstract

12 marmosets were trained to provide urine samples on request. When matched behavioural data were collected from twelve untrained animals, which were less tame and less used to human interaction, significantly more time was spent self-scratching and locomoting, as well as less time inactive, post- as opposed to pre-stressor. ... There was no overall effect of stressor [capture followed by weighing] on excreted urinary cortisol for the trained animals. No data are included in this abstract.