Nonhuman Primate

Ice-timed feeders to promote foraging

For many animals in nature, foraging is simply a matter of traveling and discovering available food. It provides both physical exercise and mental stimulation, often consuming much of an animal's time. Replicating this in a small, enclosed space is one...

Year Published: 2008Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Lemur, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Dunkel, A. 2008. Ice-timed feeders to promote foraging. Shape of Enrichment 17(3), 12-13.

Training as a means to reduce aggression in nonhuman primates

The benefits provided by these training sessions included not only a heightened level of human safety, but also critical psychological stimulation for the primates.

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Mueller, K. 2008. Training as a means to reduce aggression in nonhuman primates. Tech Talk [The Newsletter for Laboratory Animal Science Technicians] 13(3), 3.

Watching conspecifics being trained helps rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) learn faster

These results suggest that observing others being trained may help to reduce overall training time in macaques. Adult rhesus macaques required significantly less time (about 200 minutes) to cooperate during injection when they had watched others being trained, than individuals...

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Mueller, K., Moore, K., Maier, A. et al. 2008. Watching conspecifics being trained helps rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) learn faster. American Association for Laboratory Animal Science [AALAS] Meeting Official Program, 119 (Abstract).

Effect of environmental enrichment on behavioral and endocrine aspects of a captive orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)

Our results demonstrate that, after enrichment, Karen was observed at the top of the trees 97.64% of the time, a value similar to that found by Gippoliti (2000) in free-ranging orangutans, who remained day and night up to 10 meters...

Year Published: 2008Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Schilbach Pizzutto, C., Nichi, M., Geronymo Sgai, M. G. F. et al. 2008. Effect of environmental enrichment on behavioral and endocrine aspects of a captive orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) . Laboratory Primate Newsletter 47(2), 10-13.

Enhancing welfare in captivity: providing primates with choice

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: McCann C., Metzger, E., Melfi, V. et al. 2008. Enhancing welfare in captivity: providing primates with choice. Primate Eye 96, 80 (Abstract).

Use of flashlights in Old World nonhuman primate health monitoring

Effective monitoring can be challenging in an environment where nonhuman primates are housed using quad-cages. .. Facility management evaluated the use of flashlights to observe animal in lower-level cages to determine its usefulness in allowing animal care staff to observe...

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Savane, S. 2008. Use of flashlights in Old World nonhuman primate health monitoring. American Association for Laboratory Animal Science [AALAS] Meeting Official Program, 103 (Abstract).

Effects of familiarity and novelty on rates of environmental enrichment object manipulation by laboratory rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Manipulable objects are often provided to laboratory macaques as environmental enrichment, but exposure to objects is widely believed to result in rapid habituation. Consequently, much effort is made to ensure enrichment objects are novel. Here we report experimental comparisons of...

Year Published: 2008Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Leland, S. P., West, A. M., Pippin, Z. L. et al. 2008. Effects of familiarity and novelty on rates of environmental enrichment object manipulation by laboratory rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). American Journal of Primatology 70(S1), 30. (31st Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists Scientific Program, Abstract #29)

Environmental Enrichment and Refinement for Nonhuman Primates Kept in Research Laboratories – A Photographic Documentation and Literature Review (Third Edition)

Sharing the same roots makes it easy for any compassionate human primate to alleviate the suffering a nonhuman primate.

Year Published: 2008Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Reinhardt, V. , Reinhardt, A. 2008. Environmental Enrichment and Refinement for Nonhuman Primates Kept in Research Laboratories - A Photographic Documentation and Literature Review (Third Edition). Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.

Longitudinal comparison of rates of species-typical behavior of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in an enriched laboratory environment

Behavioral observations were conducted as an ongoing program of monitoring psychological well-being of chimpanzees involved in IACUC-approved preventive medicine studies. The chimpanzees were housed in a facility that provided a variety of enrichment objects, climbing structures, and glass-walled enclosures that...

Year Published: 2008Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Leland, S. P., West, A. M., Shaver, C. K. et al. 2008. Longitudinal comparison of rates of species-typical behavior of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in an enriched laboratory environment. American Journal of Primatology 70(S1), 51. (31st Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists Scientific Program, Abstract #92)

Taking Better Care of Monkeys and Apes

It is documented in professional and scientific journals that housing and handling practices of caged nonhuman primates can be refined, without undue labor and expenses, in such a way that distress responses are minimized or avoided if basic ethological principles...

Year Published: 2008Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Reinhardt, V. 2008. Taking Better Care of Monkeys and Apes. Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, DC.