Pair- and singly-housed adult male M. fascicularis behavioral response to varying video tape subject matter (2003)

Watson, L. M.

Abstract

Of the three videos, the whale film was watched more often by pair-housed, rather than singly-housed monkeys; the opposite was true for the cartoon; and there was no significant difference in frequency of watching the monkey film. Low intensity stereotypic behaviors resulted in statistical significance, on an inter-group level, only during the monkey film. The singly-housed animals exhibited these behaviors more often than did the pair-housed monkeys.