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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Captive welfare"”.
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The Effect of Sound on Captive Chimpanzees (<i>Pan troglodytes</i>)
… on nonhuman primates are not as well understood. Captive chimpanzees are exposed to markedly different acoustic environments than their wild counterparts. This study assessed the organic soundscape of a chimpanzee sanctuary, the Fauna Foundation, in Carignan, Québec, Canada. Noninvasive, …
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Re-Evaluating Captive Chimpanzee “Dominance”: Dominance Hierarchy and Chimpanzee-Caregiver Relationships at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
… the prominent connection of caregivers to captive chimpanzee social networks. Chapter I addresses current and past variability in behavioral measures and statistical methods to derive dominance rankings. I propose a novel approach to using existing statistical techniques to analyze …
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Ethics, ecology and evolution of Indonesian slow lorises (Nycticebus spp.) rescued from the pet trade
… predictors of stereotypies. For better welfare in captivity and for increased reintroduction success these findings should be addressed further. I monitored six reintroduced Javan slow lorises on Mount Salak, Java using radio telemetry. Of the feeding observations noted, floral nectar of …
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Examining Environmental Use by Captive <i>Lemur catta</i> and <i>Varecia rubra</i>
… of conservation, and observing behavior in a captive setting allows us to study lemur-environment relationships without disrupting what little habitat is left in Madagascar. In this study I investigated whether the object/substrate use of captive ring-tailed and red ruffed lemurs could be …