Macaque

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.

Effects of different environmental enrichment devices on cage stereotypies and autoaggression in captive cynomolgus monkeys

Autoaggression and stereotypies in individually housed cynomolgus monkeys were compared in a standard primate cage and an enriched playpen environment. Stereotypy and autoaggression were markedly reduced in the playpen, but reappeared on return to the home cage. Some of the...

Year Published: 1988Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bryant, C. E., Rupniak, N. M. J., Iversen, S. D. 1988. Effects of different environmental enrichment devices on cage stereotypies and autoaggression in captive cynomolgus monkeys. Journal of Medical Primatology 17(5), 257-269.

The successful introduction of five male lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) at Woodland Park Zoo

Male lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) are notoriously aggressive and thus, few attempts have been made to house them together as adults. At Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle we had five surplus males with which we were able to successfully form...

Year Published: 1988Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bound, V., Shewman, H., Sievert, J. 1988. The successful introduction of five male lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) at Woodland Park Zoo. American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) Regional Conference Proceedings, 122-131.