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Environmental enrichment-related injury in a macaque (Macaca fascicularis): Intestinal linear foreign body (2000)

Hahn, N. E., Lau, D., Eckert, K. et al.

Abstract

As a result of this incidence [ingested sisal rope pieces leading to multiple ulcerations, perforations, septic peritonitis] sisal rope enrichment devices were immediately removed from all macaque cages in the facility.

Published
2000

Animal Type
Macaque, Nonhuman Primate
Topic
Environmental Enrichment

Citation
Hahn, N. E., Lau, D., Eckert, K. et al. 2000. Environmental enrichment-related injury in a macaque (Macaca fascicularis): Intestinal linear foreign body. Comparative Medicine 50, 556-558.

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