Effects of visitors and cage changes on the behaviors of mangabeys
Abstract
Three groups of golden‐bellied mangabeys were studied to determine the effects of visitors and cage changes on their aggressive displays, grooming and sexual behavior, and play. Assessments of changes in behavior were made by comparing categorized observer comments. Animals moved to cages having more visitors increased their aggressive displays toward people, decreased their aggressive displays toward other species in neighboring cages, and increased their withingroup aggression. On the other hand, grooming, sexual behavior, and play increased after cage changes regardless of numbers of visitors. The view that it is the pattern of behavior changes in enrichment that is important in assessment of attempted enrichment was supported. Aggressive and affiliative behaviors are affected quite differently by different environmental stimuli in the zoo.
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Transfer of golden bellied mangabeys to enclosures where they were exposed to more visitors increased their aggressive displays towards visitors and intra-group aggression.
“Mitchell et al. [73] moved golden bellied mangabeys between enclosures that varied in exposure to visitor numbers and found that transfer to enclosures where the mangabeys were exposed to more visitors increased their aggressive displays towards visitors and intra-group aggression.”
From The visitor effect on zoo animals: implications and opportunities for zoo animal welfare (2019) · cites this paper as [73]
It may be that animal behaviour is influencing visitor numbers at enclosures, rather than visitors influencing animals.
“It is also worthy to note that it may actually be the case that animal behaviour is influencing visitor numbers at enclosures, rather than visitors influencing animals [15,44,73].”
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Greater visitor numbers were associated with higher rates of aggression in mangabeys, mandrills and gorillas.
“greater visitor numbers were associated with higher rates of aggression in mangabeys [73], mandrills [75] and gorillas [92].”
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Threats towards visitors increased with high visitor numbers in mandrills and golden-bellied mangabeys.
“For mandrills [75] and golden-bellied mangabeys, threats towards visitors increased with high visitor numbers [73].”
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- Authors
- Mitchell, G., Herring, F., Obradovich, S., Tromborg, C., Dowd, B., Neville, L. E., & Field, L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mitchell, G.
- Venue
- Zoo Biology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1991-01
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 417-423
- ISSN
- 0733-3188 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-2361
- OpenAlex
- W2089829825
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Zoo Biology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Veterinary › Small Animals › Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Keywords
- zoo animal behavior, visitor effects, aggression, grooming, sexual behavior, play behavior, affiliative behavior, environmental enrichment, captive primates
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