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Initiating a computer-assisted enrichment system for captive chimpanzees (2000)

Ross, S. K., Bloomsmith, M. A., Baker, K. C. et al.

Abstract

The joystick apparatus was used without significant decrease throughout 2-hour sessions and across the 3-month duration of the study. ... Food rewards were automatically dispensed upon completion of each trial. Juvenile subjects spent 20% of the 2-hour sessions utilizing the computer-joystick system, whereas their elderly cagemates used it very little (0.8%).

Published
2000

Animal Type
Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate
Topic
Environmental Enrichment

Citation
Ross, S. K., Bloomsmith, M. A., Baker, K. C. et al. 2000. Initiating a computer-assisted enrichment system for captive chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology 51(Suppleement), 86-87 (Abstract).

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