Interactions among environmental enrichment, viewing crowds, and zoo chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (1998)

Wood, W.

Abstract

Responses to enrichment were influenced by the larger contextual surround of viewing crowed. Across the study's four conditions, larger crowds were generally significantly associated with decreased frequencies of foraging, object-using, grooming and playing.Abstract of this work has been published in: American Journal of Primatology 42: 155-156, 1997; Wood W; Interactions of public viewing crowds and environmental enrichment upon the activity patterns of zoo chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).