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The use of raisin tubes as an enrichment device (1990)

Bodamer, M. D.

Abstract

Knotted plastic tubing filled with raisins. Ninety-four percent of the time that the tubes were in the cage the [single-housed] chimpanzees were interacting with them. Some animals used twigs to remove the raisins in a manner analogous to termit fishing seen in the wild.

Published
1990

Animal Type
Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate
Topic
Environmental Enrichment

Citation
Bodamer, M. D. 1990. The use of raisin tubes as an enrichment device. American Journal of Primatology 20, 175 (Abstract).

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