Abstract
New food provision strategy for a colony of Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus): effects on social hierarchy?
Highlights
Several species of non-human primates face high risk of extinction as their population numbers are continuously and dramatically dropping in the wild [1]
No significant differences emerged between the Two Whole Food condition (TWF) and One Whole Food condition (OWF) (Z=0.035, P=0.977)
Wilcoxon test using Bonferroni adjustment (P
Summary
Several species of non-human primates face high risk of extinction as their population numbers are continuously and dramatically dropping in the wild [1]. Research on animal behaviour and physiology is necessary to improve the welfare, husbandry and breeding of non-human primates as well as other species under human care [2]. Studies on feeding and nutrition in primates are needed to improve the diet composition and provisioning strategies in these species in captivity [3]. In many zoological institutions the food, fruit and vegetables, is chopped into small pieces even though animals are skilled in processing much larger or even whole food items. Fruit and vegetable, might have a positive effect on the welfare of captive primates, allowing for more opportunities to perform natural species-specific behaviours [5,6]. Chopped food items dry out quickly, whereas whole food has less degradation time, occupying the animals more intensively [5]
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