Marmoset

An alternative method for primate perch installation

Modification of squeeze cages is described allowing the installation of a perch that does not interfere with the normal operation of the cage.

Year Published: 1991Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Capuchin, Macaque, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Owl Monkey, Squirrel Monkey, Vervet (African Green Monkey)

Citation: Reinhardt, V., Pape, R. 1991. An alternative method for primate perch installation. Lab Animal 20(8), 47-48.

Environmental enrichment for single housed common marmosets

A marmoset-appropriate enrichment program is described.

Year Published: 1991Animal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Scott, L. 1991. Environmental enrichment for single housed common marmosets. In: Primate Responses to Environmental Change . Box, H. O. (ed), 266-274. Chapman and Hall, London, UK.

Technical note: A primatrail or an inexpensive cage expansion for group housing small primates

An inexpensive method for converting standard laboratory cages into colony units for housing small primate species is described. In addition to increasing the volume of space available to the animals, this system also provides a complex of climbing, running, jumping,...

Year Published: 1991Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Capuchin, Lemur, Macaque, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate, Owl Monkey, Squirrel Monkey, Vervet (African Green Monkey)

Citation: Salzen, E. A., Marriott, B. M. 1991. Technical note: A primatrail or an inexpensive cage expansion for group housing small primates. Journal of Medical Primatology 20(2), 94-96.

Guidelines on the Handling and Training of Laboratory Animals

Very helpful outline of what has to be taken into consideration when training animals to cooperate during handling procedures. Non-human primates, particularly the larger macaques, vervets, baboons and apes, are readily trained to cooperate in procedures such as presenting an...

Year Published: 1992Animal Type: All/General, Baboon, Macaque, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Vervet (African Green Monkey)

Citation: Chambers, D. R., Gibson, T. E., Bindman, L. et al. 1992. Guidelines on the Handling and Training of Laboratory Animals. Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, Potters Bar, UK.

Sound playback as an environmental enrichment for captive callitrichids

The environmental enrichment effect of sounds produced by other conspecifics was investigated in a preliminary report.

Year Published: 1992Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Crawshaw, A. 1992. Sound playback as an environmental enrichment for captive callitrichids. Congress of the International Primatological Society, 305 (Abstract).

Use of positive behavioral techniques in primates for husbandry and enrichment

Primates, as a group, offer great opportunities for positive reinforcement work.

Year Published: 1992Topics: Animal TrainingAnimal Type: Baboon, Capuchin, Chimpanzee, Lemur, Macaque, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate, Owl Monkey, Squirrel Monkey, Vervet (African Green Monkey)

Citation: Laule, G. E. 1992. Use of positive behavioral techniques in primates for husbandry and enrichment. The Newsletter 3(4), 1-2.

Quantitatively tested environmental enrichment options for singly-caged nonhuman primates: A review

Compatible companionship has a therapeutic effect on behavioral disorders, providing long- term stimulation of a great variety of species-typical social behavior patterns. Inanimate objects have little impact on behavioral disorders, but some of them provide appropriate means for the expression...

Year Published: 1992Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Baboon, Capuchin, Chimpanzee, Lemur, Macaque, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate, Owl Monkey, Squirrel Monkey, Vervet (African Green Monkey)

Citation: Reinhardt, V., Reinhardt, A. 1992. Quantitatively tested environmental enrichment options for singly-caged nonhuman primates: A review. Humane Innovations and Alternatives in Animal Experimentation 6, 374-384.

How to obtain individual urine samples from undisturbed marmoset families

An apparatus and a method are described, which allow simultaneous urine collection from all individual members of undisturbed marmoset families. By the end of the third week of training, it was not unusual to collect urine samples from an entire...

Year Published: 1993Animal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Anzenberger, G., Gossweiler, H. 1993. How to obtain individual urine samples from undisturbed marmoset families. American Journal of Primatology 31, 223-230.

Environmental enrichment for large scale marmoset units

Enrichment possibilities for marmosets are described.

Year Published: 1993Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Heath, M., Libretto, S. E. 1993. Environmental enrichment for large scale marmoset units . Animal Technology 44, 163-173.

A semi-natural habitat for housing small, nonhuman primates

A semi-natural habitat that was designed to house a group of squirrel monkeys is described. Animals maintained in this environment were healthy, and none of the animals exhibited locomotor stereotypies. This facility was easier and more economical to maintain than...

Year Published: 1993Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Housing, Natural BehaviorAnimal Type: Capuchin, Lemur, Macaque, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Owl Monkey, Squirrel Monkey, Vervet (African Green Monkey)

Citation: Marriott, B. M., Marriott, R. W., Norris, J. et al. 1993. A semi-natural habitat for housing small, nonhuman primates. Journal of Medical Primatology 22, 348-354.