Pair-housing overcomes self-biting behavior in macaques (1999)

Reinhardt, V.

Abstract

Subjects exhibited self-biting behavior predictably in the presence of personnel. "The transfer to a compatible social-housing arrangement [isosexual pair-housing] effectively cured the [seven] rhesus subjects from the behavioral pathology of habitual self-biting."

Published
1999

Animal Type
Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

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Citation
Reinhardt, V. 1999. Pair-housing overcomes self-biting behavior in macaques. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 38(1), 4.

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