Marmoset

Feeding bowl height preference in captive common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus jacchus)

Group-housed marmosets visited a high food bowl more frequently than a low food bowl. The tentative recommendation ... is to position captive marmosets' feeding bowls higher rather than lower in order to enhance their captive environment.

Year Published: 1996Topics: Husbandry & ManagementAnimal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Hannaford, G. 1996. Feeding bowl height preference in captive common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus jacchus). Australian Primatology 11(1), 5-8.

Novel objects and learning as enrichment for captive common marmosets Callithrix jacchus jacchus

The studies have implications in the field of animal welfare in that they suggest that laboratory marmosets' behaviour can be enriched by giving the animals an opportunity to learn and to work for their food, and by rotating a set...

Year Published: 1996Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Foster, F. C. 1996. Novel objects and learning as enrichment for captive common marmosets Callithrix jacchus jacchus. Australian Primatology 10(3), 2-10.

Space requirement stipulations for caged non-human primates in the United States: A critical review

Cage space requirements for non-human primates in the United States of America are less than those in European countries. Studies in support of the assumption that the US legal minimum cage size provides adequate space have limited value because they...

Year Published: 1996Topics: HousingAnimal Type: Baboon, Capuchin, Chimpanzee, Lemur, Macaque, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate, Owl Monkey, Squirrel Monkey, Vervet (African Green Monkey)

Citation: Reinhardt, V., Liss, C., Stevens, C. 1996. Space requirement stipulations for caged non-human primates in the United States: A critical review. Animal Welfare 5(4), 361-372 .

Housing and behavioural testing for long term studiesThe Housing of Non-Human Primates Used for Experimental Research and Other Scientific Purposes: Issues for Consideration

An approach that has enabled us to achieve success in long term studies, using both marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), is to combine group housing with home-cage behavioural testing. Marmosets are pair-housed (mixed sex with vasectomised males)...

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Macaque, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bowditch, A. P., Crofts, H. S., Muggleton, N. G. et al. 1997. Housing and behavioural testing for long term studiesThe Housing of Non-Human Primates Used for Experimental Research and Other Scientific Purposes: Issues for Consideration. EUPREN.

Environmental control: An important feature of good captive callitrichid environment

General discussion of environmental enrichment. It is argued that callitrichid enclosures should be designed to provide variability in the physical and social environment in which individuals have an opportunity to exhibit preferences and where environmental changes is initiated by the...

Year Published: 1997Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Buchanan-Smith, H. M. 1997. Environmental control: An important feature of good captive callitrichid environment. In: Marmosets and Tamarins in Biological and Biomedical Research. Proceedings of a Workshop. Pryce, C., Scott, L., Schnell, C. (eds), 47-53. DSSD Imagery, Salisbury, UK.

Considerations for the housing and handling of New World primates in the laboratory

Caretakers should seek knowledge of the natural lifestyles of the primates in their charge, and attempt to reproduce in the captive environment the salient aspects of the natural habitats that are biologically relevant to the animals. The aim of this...

Year Published: 1997Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Handling, Housing, Husbandry & Management, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Capuchin, Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate, Squirrel Monkey

Citation: Buchanan-Smith, H. M. 1997. Considerations for the housing and handling of New World primates in the laboratory. In: Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Animals, Eighth Edition. Reinhardt, V. (ed), 75-84. Animal Welfare Institute: Washington, DC.

Sociophysiological aspects of short-term separation in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)The Housing of Non-Human Primates Used for Experimental Research and Other Scientific Purposes: Issues for Consideration

The results show that separation in combination with a transfer to an unfamiliar cage constitutes a particularly stressful event. A familiar environment can clearly reduce the stress of a separation.

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Gerber, P., Schnell, C. R., Anzenberger, G. 1997. Sociophysiological aspects of short-term separation in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)The Housing of Non-Human Primates Used for Experimental Research and Other Scientific Purposes: Issues for Consideration. EUPREN.

Physical environment and its influence on behaviour in captive common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

In a choice situation, branches are frequently used by marmosets supporting the view that branches should be presented as a basic substrate. The marmosets did prefer thicker branches. ... We markedly increased foraging behaviour by suspending a pot, filled with...

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Dettling, A. 1997. Physical environment and its influence on behaviour in captive common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). In: Marmosets and Tamarins in Biological and Biomedical Research. Proceedings of a Workshop. Pryce, C., Scott, L., Schnell, C. (eds), 54-59. DSSD Imagery, Salisbury, UK.

Measuring psychological well-being: a methodological approach using heart rate telemetry, space utilization and behavioral time budgets in common marmosetsThe Housing of Non-Human Primates Used for Experimental Research and Other Scientific Purposes: Issues for Consideration

In studies on Callithrix jacchus some sensitive parameters of the animals reaction to experimental environmental change (cage-size and cage-equipment) were found: the mean heart rate, space utilization and behavioral time budgets. The mean day heart rate responded to variations in...

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Kerl, J. 1997. Measuring psychological well-being: a methodological approach using heart rate telemetry, space utilization and behavioral time budgets in common marmosets The Housing of Non-Human Primates Used for Experimental Research and Other Scientific Purposes: Issues for Consideration. EUPREN.

Current practice in maintaining marmosets: Results of a UK survey

A survey of current housing practices in the UK. Space is an expensive commodity, and it is, therefore, encouraging that most of the users provided more than the Home Office COP minimum.

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Hubrecht, R. C. 1997. Current practice in maintaining marmosets: Results of a UK survey. In: Marmosets and Tamarins in Biological and Biomedical Research. Proceedings of a Workshop. Pryce, C., Scott, L., Schnell, C. (eds), 24-38. DSSD Imagery, Salisbury, UK.