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Our objective was to test if caregivers could serve as effective social enrichment for captive rhesus and cynomolgus macaques and to see if there was an effect of the type of social behaviours they employed. Eight female pair-housed macaques (rhesus n=5, cynomolgus n=3) were split evenly into two treatment groups: human behaviour (HB) and monkey-like behaviour (MB). For monkeys in the HB group, caregivers would use only human behaviours while interacting with them. For those in the MB group, caregivers would attempt to replicate macaque<br \/>\nsocial behaviours. Treatment occurred daily at 1pm, when the monkeys would receive fresh produce, and lasted three weeks. The caregiver would attempt to engage with each subject for 6 minutes: 2 minutes during feeding and 2 minutes before and after. Interactions were unstructured, and caregivers would gauge their behaviours<br \/>\nbased on the monkey\u2019s reactions. Our results showed that monkeys were more likely to engage in interactions before feeding. During interactions, MB monkeys interacted less with the caregivers, showing lower rates of affiliative, submissive, and abnormal behaviour than HB monkeys (P &lt; 0.10). Monkeys from both groups spent most of their time oriented towards the caregivers and at the front of their cages, showed a 2.2 \u00b1 0.69% (7.9 sec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-1980","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CAREGIVERS ENGAGING IN MONKEY BUSINESS: EVALUATING THE USE OF CAREGIVERS AS SOCIAL ENRICHMENT FOR CAPTIVE RHESUS AND CYNOMOLGUS MACAQUES - WELL-E<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.well-e.org\/fr\/publication\/caregivers-engaging-in-monkey-business-evaluating-the-use-of-caregivers-as-social-enrichment-for-captive-rhesus-and-cynomolgus-macaques\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_CA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CAREGIVERS ENGAGING IN MONKEY BUSINESS: EVALUATING THE USE OF CAREGIVERS AS SOCIAL ENRICHMENT FOR CAPTIVE RHESUS AND CYNOMOLGUS MACAQUES - WELL-E\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Authors: Rachel Vliet and Nadege Aigueperse and Elsa Vasseur Date: 2023-06-01 Status: Published View External Publication Enrichment recommendations for captive non-human primates prioritize group-housing to provide them with social enrichment, which is often not possible in laboratory environments, due to infrastructural and experimental constraints. 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