Nonhuman Primate

USDA’s environmental enhancement pans for NGPs: Ensuring the best care possible

The deputy administrator of USDA APHIS Animal Care discusses the new draft policy on promoting the psychological well-being of NHPs, and the intended benefits for facilities, inspectors, and, most important, the animals.

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: DeHaven, W. R. 2000. USDA's environmental enhancement pans for NGPs: Ensuring the best care possible. Lab Animal 29(1), 44-46.

Primates: a natural heritage of conflict resolution

The traditional notion of aggression as an antisocial instinct is being replaced by a framework that considers it a tool of competition and negotiation. When survival depends on mutual assistance, the expression of aggression is constrained by the need to...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: de Waal, F. B. M. 2000. Primates: a natural heritage of conflict resolution. Science 289, 586-590.

Primates?a natural heritage of conflict resolution

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: de Waal, F. B. M. 2000. Primates?a natural heritage of conflict resolution. Science 289(5479), 586-590.

Environmental enrichment for non-human primates: an experimental approach

Both the puzzle-feeder and the platforms appeared to elicit interest in the marmosets. In general, they showed a tendency to spend more time in the cage provided with the enrichment than in the other one, and this tendency was significant...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: de Rosa, C., Vitale, A., Puopolo, M. 2000. Environmental enrichment for non-human primates: an experimental approach. In: Progress in the Reduction, Refinement and Replacement of Animal Experimentation. Balls, M., Van Zeller, A. M., Halder, M. (eds), 1295-1304. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Behavior, appetite, and urinary cortisol responses by adult female pigtailedmacaques to cage size, cage level, room change, and ketamine sedation

Eight female pig-tailed macaques were tested, 4 in upper-row and 4 in lower-row, barren cages. Cage size was not significantly related to abnormal behavior [ included stereotypical locomotion, hair-plucking and odd gestures such as saluting ] and cortisol excretion. Ketamine...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Crockett, C. M., Shimoji, M., Bowden, D. M. 2000. Behavior, appetite, and urinary cortisol responses by adult female pigtailedmacaques to cage size, cage level, room change, and ketamine sedation. American Journal of Primatology 52, 63-80.

Effects of different housing stystems on the behaviour of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)

Families of marmosets were tested. The introduction of cage furniture - unlike increased cage space - seemed to have a greater effect on the animals' behavioural repertoires. The enrichment enhanced .. play and exploratory activities, whereas stereotypical and stress outcomes...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Gaspari, F., Perretta, G., Schino, G. 2000. Effects of different housing stystems on the behaviour of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Folia Primatologica 71(4), 291. (Primate Meeting Abstract)

Use of guanfacine to control self-injurious behavior in two rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and one baboon (Papio anubis)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Self-injurious behavior (SIB) affects 0.8 to 10% of individually housed non-human primates, and is a substantial threat to their health and well being. The potential for SIB to involve multiple neurotransmitters and the complex variations in response...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Macy, J. D., Beattie, T. A., Morgenstern, S. E. et al. 2000 . Use of guanfacine to control self-injurious behavior in two rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and one baboon (Papio anubis). Comparative Medicine 50, 419-425.

Activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is altered by aging and exposure to social stress in female rhesus monkeys

The effects of age on the response to two doses of dexamethasone and two doses of CRF were assessed in females living in a stable social environment (control) and in socially stressed females removed from their group and housed temporarily...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Gust, D. A., Wilson, M. E., Stocker, T. et al. 2000. Activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is altered by aging and exposure to social stress in female rhesus monkeys. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 85(7), 2556-63.

Primate Enrichment: A room with a view

Pairs were transferred to a play room with windows every ten days. During the past year, we have observed that the primates spend about an hour of their time looking out the windows.

Year Published: 2000Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Lynch, R., Baker, D. 2000. Primate Enrichment: A room with a view. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 39(1), 12.

Abnormal behavior in singly-housed Macaca mulatta: Prevalence and potential risk factors

Behavioral assessments of individually-housed animals indicate that 321 of 362 animals exhibited at least one abnormal behavior (median:2, range 1-8). The most common behavior was pacing. Males showed more abnormal behavior than females. Older animals exhibited more eye poking, hair...

Year Published: 2000Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Lutz, C. K., Chase, W. K., Novak, M. A. 2000. Abnormal behavior in singly-housed Macaca mulatta: Prevalence and potential risk factors. American Journal of Primatology 51(Supplement), 71 (Abstract).