Nonhuman Primate

Long-term effects of a food puzzle on the behaviour of rhesus monkeys

Five adult males were tested during a 17 week period. Access to a food puzzle yielded an overall reduction in, or even disappearance of, the stereotyped locomotion, the stereotyped self-directed beahviours and the saluting behaviour that had been observed when...

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Florence, G., Riondet, L. 2001. Long-term effects of a food puzzle on the behaviour of rhesus monkeys. Folia Primatologica 72(3), 118-119. (Primate Meeting Abstract)

Providing for primate welfare: The zoo perspective

This presentation describes current practices in maintaining primates in Australian zoos, and addresses issues concerning primate welfare. ... Key elements of successful environmental enrichment include providing choice for the animal, providing challenges that are within the capabilities of the individual,...

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Husbandry & ManagementAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Embury, A. 2001. Providing for primate welfare: The zoo perspective. Australian Primatology 14(3), 31-38.

A comparative study of reconciliation in rhesus and Tonkean macaques

Post-conflict affiliative contacts between previous opponents were compared in Rhesus and Tonkean macaques. The first contact mostly occurred in the first minute following conflict. Among unrelated females, conciliatory tendencies rated fivefold higher in Tonkean macaques than in rhesus macaques. This...

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Demaria, C., Thierry, B. 2001. A comparative study of reconciliation in rhesus and Tonkean macaques. Behaviour 138(3), 397-410.

Puzzle-feeders as environmental enrichment in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

The puzzle feeder was presented to three families. Food-related activities were observed more often in the cage with the puzzle-feeder when the animals were hungry.

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Marmoset, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: de Rosa, C., Vitale, A., Puopolo, M. 2001. Puzzle-feeders as environmental enrichment in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Folia Primatologica 72(3), 131. (Primate Meeting Abstract)

Foreward. In: Special Topics in Primatology Volume 2

Primate intelligence is to a large extent social intelligence. Efforts to proved an interesting and variable life to captive primates should focus, therefore, on the social environment. The physical housing conditions will then be dictated by the requirements of group...

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: de Waal, F. B. M. 2001. Foreward. In: Special Topics in Primatology Volume 2 - The Care and Management of Captive Chimpanzees. Brent, L. (ed.), xi-xiii. The American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX.

The essentials of captive primate care

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Crook, G. 2001. The essentials of captive primate care. Australian Primatology 14(3), 20-26.

Proposed new standards for exhibiting primates in New South Wales

To address primate psychological/behavioural needs the proposed standards create requirements in relation to the following: behavioural enrichment program- to stimulate all five of the animal's senses. The aim of such a program is to regularly create novel situations for the...

Year Published: 2001Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Crane, M. 2001. Proposed new standards for exhibiting primates in New South Wales. Australian Primatology 14(3), 8-16.

Compatibility of laboratory monkeys housed in grooming-contact cages varies by species and sex

At the Washington Regional Primate Research Center, we promote grooming-contact caging as a means to provide laboratory monkeys with tactile social contact while maintaining research access to animals housed individually. Grooming contact is achieved through widely spaced vertical bars that...

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Baboon, Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Crockett, C. M., Koberstein, D., Heffernan, K. S. 2001. Compatibility of laboratory monkeys housed in grooming-contact cages varies by species and sex. American Journal of Primatology 54(Supplement ), 51-52 (Abstract).

Puzzle Ball foraging device for laboratory monkeys

We wanted a foraging device that was inexpensive, durable, and effective, and that could be sanitized during routine cage washing. .. An earlier design of this foraging device was developed by Murchison (1992). The design described here includes modified access...

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Crockett, C. M., Bellanca, R. U., Heffernan, K. S. et al. 2001. Puzzle Ball foraging device for laboratory monkeys. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 40(1), 4-7.

Using behaviour profiles to identify correlates and possible prevention of abnormal behaviour in laboratory monkeys

Year Published: 2001Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Crockett, C. M., Bellanca, R. U. 2001. Using behaviour profiles to identify correlates and possible prevention of abnormal behaviour in laboratory monkeys. Congress of the International Primatological Society, 448 (Abstract).