Primates and disability: Behavioral flexibility and implications for resilience to environmental change
Brogan M. Stewart,
Megan M. Joyce,
Jack Creeggan
et al.
Abstract:Congenital malformations, conditions, injuries, and illness can lead to long‐term physical impairment and disability in nonhuman primates. How individual primates change their behaviors flexibly to compensate for their disabilities can inform our understanding of their resilience and ability to adjust to environmental change. Here, we synthesize the literature on nonhuman primates and disability, addressing the questions: how does disability influence behavior in primates? What insights can we take from the li… Show more
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