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Capuchin Monkeys/grooming Habits

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...social animals with specific traits and behaviors. Grooming is one of their basic behaviors and research has endeavored to determine the roles that grooming behaviors play within the social world of the capuchins. As it is the goal of zoos and animal behaviorists to design enclosures for animals that will alter the behavior of captive animals as little as possible, it is an ongoing task for researchers to determine the differences between the behavior of animals in captivity versus those in the wild, as such information serves to inform the methods and practices of providing humane and balanced environments for zoo animals that succeed in simulating native environments to the greatest degree possible and thereby encourage animal behavior that is closely aligned with behavior in the wild.
To achieve facilitate this purpose, this study observed two groups of capuchin monkeys during observations that occurred over the course of several days in order to determine if their grooming behavior was similar to or different from capuchins in the wild. The observations took...

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