Publications

Adaption, maladaption and disease

Reptiles/ Amphibians

Year Published: 1980Animal Type: Amphibian, Reptile

Citation: Cowan, D. F. 1980. Adaption, maladaption and disease. In: Reproductive Biology and Diseases of Captive Reptiles. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Contributions to Herpetology No. 1. Murphy, J. B. , Collins, J. T. (eds), 191-196. Meseraull Printing, Lawrence, KS.

Investigatory behavior in snakes, II: Cage cleaning and the induction of defecation in snakes

In Experiment 1, boid and colubrid snakes defecated with shorter latencies after their home cages were cleaned than did control snakes that received equivalent handling without cage cleaning. Experiment 2 replicated this finding and also showed that snakes exposed to...

Year Published: 1980Animal Type: Reptile, Snake

Citation: Chiszar, D., Wellborn, S., Wand, M. A. et al. 1980. Investigatory behavior in snakes, II: Cage cleaning and the induction of defecation in snakes. Animal Learning and Behavior 8, 505-510.

Ethics and animal experimentation

The researcher's central dilemma exists in an especially acute form in psychology: either the animal is not like us, in which case there is no reason for performing the experiment; or else the animal is like us, in which case...

Year Published: 1980Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Bowd, A. D. 1980. Ethics and animal experimentation. American Psychologist 35, 224-225.

Activity patterns in a stumptail macaque group (Macaca arctoides)

Individuals participated in social grooming approximately 12% of the time; females did far more grooming than did males.

Year Published: 1980Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bernstein, I. S. 1980. Activity patterns in a stumptail macaque group (Macaca arctoides). Folia Primatologica 33(1-2), 20-45.

Lighting in the animal environment

What we basically have done to date is to provide lighting suitable to our needs and assumed it was all right for the animal. [p. 441] Light intensities in stacked cages vary substantially.

Year Published: 1980Animal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Bellhorn, R. W. 1980. Lighting in the animal environment. Laboratory Animal Science 30, 440-450.

Differential effects of person in the dog and in the human

People have marked effects on dog's heart rate, with great individual variations for different persons. Apparently people to which the dog is attached have the greatest effect upon heart rate. Replications of the animal experiments using the psychotherapist and two...

Year Published: 1979Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Astrup, C. W., Gantt , W. H., Stephens, J. H. 1979. Differential effects of person in the dog and in the human. Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science 14, 104-107.

Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Animals, Seventh Edition

Recommendations to meet basic behavioral and spatial needs of laboratory animals.

Year Published: 1979Animal Type: All/General

Citation: Animal Welfare Institute 1979. Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Animals, Seventh Edition. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

The Stanford outdoor primate facility

Various inanimate enrichment options for outdoor-housed chimpanzees are described. An adolescent male chimpanzee cooperated in venipuncture; research assistants draw a 10-ml sample of blood while the animal sucks apple juice from a plastic bottle.

Year Published: 1979Animal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: McGinnis, P. R. , Kraemer, H. C. 1979. The Stanford outdoor primate facility. In: Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Animals, Seventh Edition. 20-27. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

Environmental enrichment and behavioral engineering for captive primates

Food dispensing apparatuses were developed and successfully implemented as feeding enrichment options for group-housed gibbons, siamangs and diana monkeys. Frequently, often with free food in their hands, they [gibbons] attempted to get the lights and levers to respond and missed...

Year Published: 1979Animal Type: Gibbon, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Markowitz, H. 1979. Environmental enrichment and behavioral engineering for captive primates. In: Captivity and Behavior. Erwin, J., Maple, T., Mitchell, G. (eds), 217-238. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY.

Great apes in captivity: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Suggestions to enhance the physical and social environment of apes. Captive apes need activity in order to prevent boredom.

Year Published: 1979Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Maple, T. L. 1979. Great apes in captivity: The good, the bad, and the ugly. In: Captivity and Behavior. Erwin, J., Maple, T., Mitchell, G. (eds), 239-272. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY.