Macaque

Prompted progression order in a troop of captive rhesus monkeys

The 22 animals were prompted - shouting, threatening with sticks - to exit into a transfer cage and subsequently weighed one a month. The animals had to overcome fear before leaving their home pen. Nonetheless, they left in a well-defined...

Year Published: 1987Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Reinhardt, V., Reinhardt, A., Houser, D. 1987. Prompted progression order in a troop of captive rhesus monkeys. Folia Primatologica 48(3-4), 121-124.

Preliminary comments on environmental enrichment with branches for individually caged rhesus monkeys

The branches not only were attractive to the majority (87%) of [single-housed] animals but they were also inexpensive and easy to install and to clean.

Year Published: 1987Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Reinhardt, V., Houser, W. D., Cowley, D. et al. 1987. Preliminary comments on environmental enrichment with branches for individually caged rhesus monkeys. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 26(1), 1-3.

Social enrichment of the environment with infants for singly caged adult rhesus monkeys

Twenty-nine weaned rhesus monkey infants were removed from breeding troops to avoid overcrowding and were placed with unfamiliar singly caged adults without prior familiarization. Adult-infant pairs were compatible in 90% of cases. Compatibility depended neither on the sex, age, or...

Year Published: 1987Topics: Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Reinhardt, V., Houser, W. D., Eisele, S. et al. 1987. Social enrichment of the environment with infants for singly caged adult rhesus monkeys. Zoo Biology 6, 365-371.

Improved installation method for branches that are used as cage enrichment for macaques

We attach the branch in such a way that the animal can both perch on it and freely move below it. ... We are confident that we have found an optimal way to eliminate the need of special cleaning due...

Year Published: 1987Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Reinhardt, V. 1987. Improved installation method for branches that are used as cage enrichment for macaques. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 26(3), 1.

Advantages of housing rhesus monkeys in compatible pairs

An intelligent, social animals such as a rhesus monkey, ... represents a caricature of its own kind when kept in an artificial environment that is deprived of both animate and inanimate stimulation. Such animals are behavioral cripples, since the whole...

Year Published: 1987Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Reinhardt, V. 1987. Advantages of housing rhesus monkeys in compatible pairs. Scientists Center for Animal Welfare Newsletter 9(3), 3-6.

Enriching the lives of primates in captivity

A summary of basic environmental enrichement for group-housed rhesus macaques. The essence of the social primate is lost under the stresses of the nonsocial condition.

Year Published: 1987Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Human-Animal Interaction, Husbandry & Management, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: O'Neill, P. L. 1987. Enriching the lives of primates in captivity. Humane Innovations and Alternatives in Animal Experimentation 1, 1-5.

Cage enrichment, behavior, and physiology in nursery-reared rhesus monkeys

Calm [single-caged] control animals and stressed [single-caged] enriched animals exhibited higher cortisol values. The enriched animals had lower cortisols when they appeared calm and higher cortisols when they appeared stressed.

Year Published: 1988Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Clarke, M. R., Martin, L. N., Baskin, G. B. 1988. Cage enrichment, behavior, and physiology in nursery-reared rhesus monkeys. American Journal of Primatology 14, 16 (Abstract).

Differential behavioral and adrenocortical responses to stress among three macaque species

Training technique is described to ensure that single-housed subjects voluntarily entered a transfer box. Bonnets took longer to train than rhesus or crabeaters.

Year Published: 1988Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Clarke, A. S., Mason, W. A., Moberg, G. P. 1988. Differential behavioral and adrenocortical responses to stress among three macaque species. American Journal of Primatology 14, 37-45.

Interspecific contrasts in responses of macaques to transport cage

Training technique is described to ensure that single-housed subjects voluntarily entered a transfer box. Bonnets took longer to train than rhesus or cynos.

Year Published: 1988Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Clarke, A. S., Mason, W. A., Moberg, G. P. 1988. Interspecific contrasts in responses of macaques to transport cage. Laboratory Animal Science 38, 305-309.

Impact of feeding practices on growth and behavior of stump-tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides)

Discussion of woodchip litter studies conducted with group-housed animals.

Year Published: 1988Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Chamove, A. S., Anderson, J. R. 1988 . Impact of feeding practices on growth and behavior of stump-tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides). Ecology and Behavior of Food-Enhanced Primate Groups , 231-246.