A Stereo Music System as Environmental Enrichment for Captive Chimpanzees
Sue Howell PhD, Melanie Schwandt PhD, Jo Fritz, Elizabeth Roeder
& Christine Nelson
The authors are at the Primate Foundation of Arizona, PO Box 20027, Mesa, AZ 85277-0027.
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Music has been shown to have beneficial effects on humans but little is known about the effects of music on nonhuman primates in biomedical research settings. The authors monitored the effects of music on the behavior of captive chimpanzees and found that music had significant positive effects, including a reduction in agitated and aggressive behaviors.
