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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Squirrel monkey"”.
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Spatial orientation in the squirrel monkey : an experimental and theoretical investigation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1990.
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Juvenile Feeding Ecology and Life History in a Neotropical Primate, the Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Sciureus)
… This study examined the foraging ecology of the squirrel monkey, a small, neotropical primate with an unusually long juvenile phase. The feeding behaviors of wild juveniles and adults were examined under varying conditions of food abundance and predation risk, during 14 months in Eastern …
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The Relative Efficiency of Auditory (Social) Reinforcement vs. Food Reinforcement with the Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Sciureus) in an Operant Situation
Research using non-deprivation and sensory or food reinforcement has received little attention to the present time. It is possible that, at least in the laboratory, sensory reinforcement under non- deprived conditions may be a much more economical and efficient reinforcer than food reinforcement …
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Roles Of Inhibitory Interneurons In Cerebellar Cortical Processing For Oculomotor Control
… project. This included writing software to train squirrel monkeys and control a variety of vestibulo-oculomotor tasks, characterizing the oculomotor behavioral repertoire of the squirrel monkey in comparison to that of the rhesus macaque, and developing two techniques for examining the roles of …
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Habitat modification and gene flow in Saimiri oerstedii: Landscape genetics, intraspecific molecular systematics, and conservation
… and dispersal patterns in the Central American Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri oerstedii, Primates: Cebidae), a New World primate threatened with extinction and living in a heterogeneous, human-modified landscape, using analyses that explicitly consider matrix heterogeneity. I focus on the more …