Nonhuman Primate

Food, behavioral enrichment, and primates: Some guidelines

Enrichment foods must be incorporated into the daily ration as part of the diet; they should encourage natural foraging behaviors and extend the amount of time an animal spends feeding/foraging.

Year Published: 1997Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Toddes, B., Power, M. L., Lintzenich, B. 1997. Food, behavioral enrichment, and primates: Some guidelines. Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Nutrition Advisory Group/ American Zoo and Aquarium Association on Zoo and Wildlife (NAG/AZA) 3, 1-16.

Social housing condition affects cell-mediated immune responses in adult rhesus macaques

Results support earlier findings in which pair housed monkeys required significantly fewer veterinary interventions for diarrhea than did single or group housed monkeys.

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Schapiro, S. J., Nehete, P. N., Perlman, J. E. et al. 1997. Social housing condition affects cell-mediated immune responses in adult rhesus macaques. American Journal of Primatology 42, 147 (Abstract).

Providing enrichment at no cost

Green pine cones can cause severe diarrhea. Keepers should work only with old, opened-up pinecones. Hamadryas baboons, and mandrills will play with them, and they can be stuffed with food supplements such as peanut butter or honey, or just used...

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

Citation: Tresz, H. 1997. Providing enrichment at no cost. The Shape of Enrichment 6(4), 1-4.

A comparison of the effects of simple versus complex environmental enrichment on the behaviour of group-housed, subadult rhesus macaques

Enrichment of the environments of captive primates is currently of interest as both a basic and an applied research question, particularly when social and inanimate enhancements are used simultaneously. We measured the hehavioural effects of two intensities of inanimate enrichment...

Year Published: 1997Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Schapiro, S. J., Bloomsmith, M. A., Suarez, S. A. et al. 1997. A comparison of the effects of simple versus complex environmental enrichment on the behaviour of group-housed, subadult rhesus macaques. Animal Welfare 6, 17-28.

Novelty influences use of play structures by a group of socially housed bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata)

It is important to note, however, that all structures (milk crate swings, fire hose suspended from two points, PVC tube suspended from two points, toys, rope dangling by one end) showed a decline in use over the testing period in...

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Taylor, W. J., Brown, D. A., Davis, W. L. et al. 1997. Novelty influences use of play structures by a group of socially housed bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata). Laboratory Primate Newsletter 36(1), 4-6.

Does altering cage size and cage furnishings alter behavior in Senegal galagos? American Journal of Primatology 42, 145-146 (Abstract)

Neither increasing cage size nor enriching cage furnishings resulted in any dramatic behavioral changes.

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Schaefer, M. S., Nash, L. T. 1997. Does altering cage size and cage furnishings alter behavior in Senegal galagos? American Journal of Primatology 42, 145-146 (Abstract).

Response to temporally distributed feeding schedules in a group of bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata)

Portioning the daily food ration in four rather than two different feedings resulted in a significant increase in the amount of time spent foraging and eating/drinking in group-housed animals.

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Taylor, W. J., Brown, D. A., Lucas-Awad, J. et al. 1997. Response to temporally distributed feeding schedules in a group of bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata). Laboratory Primate Newsletter 36(3), 1-3.

Utilization of a sensory diet approach for enrichment and mitigation of abnormal behaviors in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Treatment consisted of stimulation of the tactile senses through use of various paper media, a combing/brushing schedule and muscle pressure techniques. A reduction in the rate of coprophagive events was observed.

Year Published: 1997Topics: Abnormal/Problematic Behavior, Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Struthers, E. J., Harvey, H., Walden, S. 1997. Utilization of a sensory diet approach for enrichment and mitigation of abnormal behaviors in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology 42, 151 (Abstract).

Effect of environmental enrichment devices on behaviors of single- and group-housed squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)

This would suggest that enrichment provided by social interaction ... may play a greater role in maintaining the monkeys' psychological well-being than did physical enrichment devices.

Year Published: 1997Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Squirrel Monkey

Citation: Spring S. E., Clifford, J. O., Tomko, D. L. 1997. Effect of environmental enrichment devices on behaviors of single- and group-housed squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus). Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science 36(3), 72-75.

Better living through training

This paper will view the training program from the perspective of a keeper joining the team after the program was solidly in place. It will explore the ways in which training allows apes and their keepers to cooperate to make...

Year Published: 1997Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Steedle, A. 1997. Better living through training. Gorilla Gazette 11(1), 20 (Abstract).