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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 27.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Anim Behav Sci. 2012 Mar;137(3-4):148–156. doi: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.09.010

Table 2.

Behavioral categories analyzed (in bold).

Abnormal
  Appetitive: coprophagy, feces paint, regurgitate, urine drink
  Locomotor stereotypes: bizarre posture, flip, floating limb, head toss, jump, pace, rock
  Non-injurious self-directed: eye-poke, self-clasp, self-mouth
  Overgroom: pluck hair from self, using hands or teeth; may include ingesting hair
  Self-injurious: self-bite, self-slap (no self-wounding occurred during the study)
Anxiety-related
  Body shake: rapid shaking of head and shoulders
  Scratch: vigorous strokes of the hair
  Self-groom: any picking, stroking and/or licking of one’s own body hair, including biting or chewing on nails
  Yawn: monkey opens mouth wide, often exposing teeth
Affiliative
  Contact affiliative: groom, rest in contact, social play, cling, mount, genital explore
  Non-contact affiliative: attempt to touch, lip-smack, present
Agonistic
  Contact aggression: moderate aggressive contact (pushing, pulling, grabbing, minor scratching), severe aggressive contact (biting with injury)
  Non-contact aggression: bob, cage shake, cringe, crook tail, ear flick, fear grimace, flee, grab, jaw snap, lunge, open-mouth stare, rapid glances, rump present, stare, teeth grinding, attempt to bite
Enrichment-directed
  Attack enrichment: bite or grab manipulable object (e.g. toy) in an aggressive manner
  Display with enrichment: use manipulable object to threaten by shaking, throwing, etc.
  Manual/oral enrichment manipulation: Touch, handle, forage, chew, lick, suck manipulable object
Inactive: passive, awake or asleep
Locomotion: walk, climb, jump