Nonhuman Primate

Training Medical Behaviors in Orangutans at Brookfield Zoo (Videotape With Commentary)

Training technique is clearly described and demonstrated to ensure cooperation of two pair-housed female/male orangutans during daily insulin injection.

Year Published: 1989Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Berman, N. , Greenblatt, H. 1989. Training Medical Behaviors in Orangutans at Brookfield Zoo (Videotape With Commentary). Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo, ILAvailable on loan from Animal Care Audio-Visual Materials, WRPRC, 1220 Capitol Court, Madison, WI 53715, USA .

Presenting and mounting in non-human primates: Theoretical developments

Studies of presenting and mounting in non-human primates, mainly in Old World monkeys, are reviewed with particular emphasis on studies undertaken in the last two decades. The significance of presenting/mounting as social signals has been increasingly recognized in recent studies....

Year Published: 1989Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Chadwick-Jones, J. K. 1989. Presenting and mounting in non-human primates: Theoretical developments. Journal of Social and Biological Structures 12, 319-333.

Breeding colonies and psychological well-being

Valuable discussion of relatively safe group-housing management practices.

Year Published: 1989Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bernstein, I. S. 1989. Breeding colonies and psychological well-being. American Journal of Primatology 19(Supplement 1), 31-36.

The effects of single caging on chimpanzee behavior

Transfer from group-housing to single-housing resulted in a significant increase in stereotyped behaviors.

Year Published: 1989Animal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Brent, L., Lee, D. R., Eichberg, J. W. 1989. The effects of single caging on chimpanzee behavior. Laboratory Animal Science 39, 345-346.

Introductory techniques in the formation of pigtail monkey troops

Different introduction options are compared.

Year Published: 1969Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bernstein, I. S. 1969. Introductory techniques in the formation of pigtail monkey troops. Folia Primatologica 10, 1-19.

Environmental enrichment of a semi-free-ranging facility for captive chimpanzees

Year Published: 1989Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Brent, L., Lee, D. R., Eichberg, J. W. 1989. Environmental enrichment of a semi-free-ranging facility for captive chimpanzees . American Journal of Primatology 18, 137-138 (Abstract).

The use of naturally occurring manipulanda to improve the psychological well-being of singly housed baboons

The single-housed animals demonstrated a marked reduction of cage stereotypy during the time they had the corn to manipulate. [Abstract of this work has also been published in: The Psychological Well-Being of Captive Primates Conference: 44-45, 1988; Spector MR, Bennett...

Year Published: 1989Animal Type: Baboon, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bennett, B. T., Spector, M. R. 1989. The use of naturally occurring manipulanda to improve the psychological well-being of singly housed baboons. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 194, 1782 (Abstract).

Evaluation of two environmental enrichment devices for singly caged chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

The television had a less pronounced effect on behavior [reducing behavioral disorders and increasing activity of the single-housed subjects] than the toys.

Year Published: 1989Animal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Brent, L., Lee, D. R., Eichberg, J. W. 1989. Evaluation of two environmental enrichment devices for singly caged chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology 19(Supplement ), 65-70.

Enrichment options for guenons in the laboratory

Natural materials are permeable to urine, but unless there is a clear health threat, we must tolerate natural elements in primate housing... It is ludicrous to feel good about hygiene just because the steel cage is sterilized in a cage...

Year Published: 1989Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bramblett, C. A. 1989. Enrichment options for guenons in the laboratory. American Journal of Primatology 19(Supplement 1), 59-63.

Mental well-being in anthropoids

The most stimulating thing you can possibly add to the environment of a guenon is a conspecific. ... One of the tragedies of modern laboratory animal research has been the tendency to use hardware and isolation to solve research problems...

Year Published: 1989Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Other Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bramblett, C. A. 1989. Mental well-being in anthropoids. In: Housing, Care and Psychological Wellbeing of Captive and Laboratory Primates. Segal, E. F. (ed), 1-11. Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ.