ON THE USE OF THE SQUIRREL MONKEY IN BEHAVIORAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS
- 1 April 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 6 (2) , 249-252
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1963.6-249
Abstract
We have found the squirrel monkey to be a useful experimental subject for behavioral and pharmacological experiments. This note presents techniques used for housing, feeding, handling, and administering drugs to these small primates.Keywords
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