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The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates (1998) / Chapter Skim
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... and absence of chronic signs of distress as indexed by the presence of affiliative versus distress vocalizations, facial expressions, postures, and physiological responses (e.g., labored breathing, excessive cardiac response, and abnormal hormonal concentrations)
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... If the atypical behavior of an animal can be attributed to its age and sex, the behavior might be persistent and acceptable for that animal. Whereas it might be argued that rearing conditions and treatments that lead to atypical behavioral profiles should be avoided as undesirable, animals already reared under such conditions can be maintained in ways that are supportive of their individual psychological well-being as an amelioration of unusual behavior patterns caused by their earlier life experiences.
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... We know that the utility of devices designed to provide opportunities for foraging and exploration depends on the same variables. We know that housing requirements depend on bodily dimensions, normal postures, and locomotor patterns (e.g., arm swinging versus bipedal leaping versus quadrupedal striding or climbing)
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... . Whereas we know some of the relevant dimensions that influence psychological well-being in nonhuman primates and some of the outcomes that we hope to attain by proper specification of such characteristics, we cannot specify the exact measurements required for each of the many species and for individual animals of every age, sex, and life history.
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Key Terms

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  • individual animals
  • appropriately trained
  • social companionship
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  • requires excessive
  • normal postural
  • influences behavior
  • cage dimensions
  • individual psychological

  • close human
  • patterns caused
  • isolating individual
  • provoke animal
  • tolerate close

  • housing provides
  • performance standard
  • swinging versus
  • actually improve
  • affected animals

  • social housing
  • person offered
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  • normative pattern
  • earlier life


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