Pacing behaviour in laboratory macaques is an unreliable indicator of acute stress.
C. Poirier, C. J. Oliver, J. Catellano Bueno, P. Flecknell, M. Bateson
This study finds that pacing behavior in laboratory rhesus macaques does not reliably indicate acute stress, as it does not increase during or after agonistic interactions, unlike displacement behaviors.
bioRxiv · Apr 4, 2019Animal Behavior & Cognition