Ark design update: Primate needs and requirements (1995)

Lindburg, D. G. , Coe, J.

Abstract

Primate needs and requirements are discussed in relation to appropriate captive housing and management. Providing a familiar, compatible companion during the hospitalization of juveniles or adults is rarely attempted even when doing so poses no risk to health or interference with treatment. ...Wherever possible, every effort should be made to design in ways that bring the treatment to the animal, instead of the reverse. Removal for any purpose exposes the animal to overly novel, frequently noxious, and always stressful, stimuli.