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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Primatol. 2008 Jun;70(6):542–550. doi: 10.1002/ajp.20526

TABLE II. Behavioral Categories.

Indices of Psychological Disturbance (i.e., Depressivea and Anxiety-relatedb)
  • Body shake: Rapid shaking of head and shoulders

  • Scratch: Vigorous strokes of the hair (>1 motion)

  • Self-groom: Any picking, stroking, and/or licking of one's own body hair (>1 motion), including biting or chewing on nails

  • Slump: Sustained inactivity in contact with object or caging in a self-enclosed position or slumped body posture with head at or lower than shoulder level

  • Vigilant scanning: Monkey is alert, avoids eye contact, and eyes are darting back and forth scanning social environment

  • Yawn: Monkey opens mouth wide, often exposing teeth

Abnormal: Locomotor stereotypes including bizarre posture, flip, floating limb, head toss, jump, pace, rock, spin, and stereotype; other abnormal behavior categories (e.g., overgrooming) occurred too rarely to be analyzed
Eat: Common usage, includes holding food
Forage: Manipulating foraging boards with hands or mouth; eating or attempting to remove seeds/foraging mix off board
Inactive: Passive or sleeping
Locomotion: Walk, climb, jump (two steps or more)
Manipulate
  • Manipulate other: Using hands, feet, or mouth to explore inanimate objects other than enrichment

  • Attack enrichment: Bite or grab enrichment in an aggressive manner

  • Display with enrichment: Use enrichment to threaten by shaking, throwing, etc.

  • Manual/oral enrichment manipulation: Touch, handle, forage, chew, bite (gently), lick, suck enrichment

Non-contact affiliative: Attempt to touch, lip-smack, present, coo calls
Contact affiliative: Groom, affiliative contact, social overpluck, social play, cling, mount, and genital explore
Agonisticc
  • Contact aggression: Includes moderate aggressive contact and severe aggressive contact

  • Non-contact aggression: Includes cage shake, crook tail, ear flick, grab at, jaw snap, lung, open-mouth stare, stare, teeth grinding, and attempt to bite

  • Receive contact aggression: Includes moderate aggressive contact and severe aggressive contact

  • Receive non-contact aggression: Includes cage shake, crook tail, ear flick, grab at, jaw snap, lunge, open-mouth stare, stare, teeth grinding, and attempt to bite

Analysis performed on bolded behavioral categories.

b

Self-directed displacement behavior that has been demonstrated to be associated with stress [Baker & Aureli, 1997; Maestripieri et al., 1992; Schino et al., 1996].

c

Submissive behaviors (fear grimace, bob, rapid glances, cringe, and rump present) and receipt of submission were included in the ethogram but not analyzed because they were only observed in one animal in one phase.