I read an article in the June 11, 2008 Los Angeles Times. It talked about a unique gibbons facility that is in Santa Clarita. A man, by the name of Alan Mootnick, is the founder of the place. There is a lot of development going on near the facility because of the Southern California Edison project. All of the construction and noise is causing the apes stress and causing them to leap eratically. This is really bad for the health and even causes some female gibbons to loose their babies.
Alan Mootnick talks about getting a new facility but he is having to find funds for it. I was thinking that he could try to change the behavior of the monkeys so that they could get use to the noise. Right now there is a unconditioned stimuli, which is the noise, and an unconditioned response which is to be stressed. Maybe Mootnick could work with the monkeys and relate a good behavior or activity that they do with the noise. If he did this maybe the monkeys would not be so afraid of the noise.
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