A novel caging method for collecting telemetry data from pair-housed monkeys (2005)

Sheehan, J., Ziegelhofer, T., Henn, S. et al.

Abstract

Caging method is described that allows telemetric measurements [ECG and blood pressure] of long-tailed macaques housed in pairs. The first method consisted of modifying the current cages to add a wire mesh tunnel constructed above the two adjacent cages, with sliding doors on either end so the monkeys could be intermittently paired. The second method for improvement with these modified cages was to compare results if we permanently placed a telemetered and a non-telemetered pair of monkeys in the cages and collected data using the distributed receiver array which allows for two receivers to be configured to one animal. No differences were noted in the data collected nore were any artifacts created by application of the second uninterrupted pair-housing method.