Promoting the psychological well-being of restrained NHPs through an environmental enrichment program (2000)

McGuffey, L. H., McCully, C., Scanlon, L.

Abstract

In an effort to promote the psychological well-being of our NHPs, we developed an enrichment program [e.g., interaction with humans, positive reinforcement training, TV] to reduce stress during [chair-] restraint. .. Application of these enrichment techniques provide our restrained NHP's an experimental environment designed to reduce animal stress, thereby benefiting the animal, increasing staff safety and generating data with minimal variables.