Simple Summary Over the past century, the field of animal care and management has
changed in many ways. Changes to animal care strategies are a reflection of our increased …

Animal personality can affect individual fitness and population growth. Personality traits of
either parent or parents' combination may facilitate reproduction and offspring survival …

Simple Summary Primates have been used in research for the past hundred years as a
window into our shared evolutionary history, to learn more about their unique behavioral …

Questionnaires based on human models can be used to reliably assess personality also in
non-human primates. In this study, we used an adapted version of Eysenck's Psychoticism …

The proximate mechanisms underlying animal personalities, ie consistent inter-individual
differences in behaviour, are a matter of discussion. Brain lateralization, expressed as the …

Environmental enrichment aims to enhance primate wellbeing by providing physical and
mental stimuli to address the biological and psychological needs of individuals. However …

Simple Summary This manuscript details seven different types of behavioral metrics utilized
at Chimp Haven to monitor the welfare of the chimpanzees. Each metric focuses on a …

It is important to those managing Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) in captive settings
to understand predictors of wounding. While studies have demonstrated that season …

Assessing welfare is at the forefront of modern zoo practice, and there is increasing
recognition of how certain personality types are at greater risk of poor welfare outcomes than …

Simple Summary Do nonhuman primates, such as Tibetan macaques, exhibit personalities
that influence their collective movements? In this study, we not only confirmed the presence …