Nonhuman primate wounding prevalence: A retrospective analysis (1995)

Bayne, K., Haines, M., Dexter, S. et al.

Abstract

A survey of the occurrence of injuries in group-housed, pair-housed and individually housed macaques. Females acquired wounds and required wound management more frequently than males in group-housed macaques. Individually housed males engaged in self-biting behaviour more often than their female counterparts. Both individually and group-housed animals involved in a wounding incidence were likely to be wounded again. Individually housed animals who exhibit self-biting behaviour can increase the occurrence of this behavior in animals around them in a holding room. Most recorded interanimal wounding required only minor treatment.