Stopping self injurious behaviour of a young male chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) (2010)

De Villiers, C., Seier, J. V.

Abstract

While access to a foraging log had no curative effect on serious self-injurious biting of a single-caged subadult male baboon, transferring the animal to an outdoor section with compatible females in adjacent cages (allowing grooming interactions) resulted in a healing of the self-inflicted laceration within four months. After 18 months neither the self-injurious biting nor the wounds reoccurred.