Social Housing & Companionship

Pairing Macaca mulatta and Macaca arctoides of both sexes

One hundred and sixty-two female and 48 male rhesus macaques, and 10 female and 8 male stump-tailed macaques who had lived in single cages for several years were transferred to isosexual pair-housing conditions. ... Fighting was witnessed in three (2.6%;...

Year Published: 1998Topics: Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Reinhardt, V. 1998. Pairing Macaca mulatta and Macaca arctoides of both sexes. Laboratory Primate Newsletter 37(4), 2.

The Laboratory Rabbit

Description of rabbit-adequate floor pen housing and cage housing systems and species-adequate handling. Behavioural work that the author has carried out has shown a significant improvement in the quality of life for group housed animals, even those regarded as subordinate,...

Year Published: 1999Topics: Handling, Housing, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Rabbit

Citation: Batchelor, G. R. 1999. The Laboratory Rabbit. In: The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory Animals Seventh Edition. Poole, T. , English, P. (eds), 395-408. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.

Pair housing adult owl monkeys (Aotus sp.)

A neutral sanitized pairing cage is outfitted with two fresh nest boxes and a perch. Fresh fruit is scattered throughout prior to introductions. Isosexual pairs are introduced to the new cage simultaneously. A total of 10 male and 14 female...

Year Published: 1998Topics: Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Nonhuman Primate, Owl Monkey

Citation: Weed, J. L., Watson, L. M. 1998. Pair housing adult owl monkeys (Aotus sp.) for environmental enrichment. American Journal of Primatology 45, 212 (Abstract).

Managing the environmental enrichment program for nonhuman primates and domestic farm animals housed at the National Institutes of Health

The management of the animal enrichment program within the National Institutes of health is described. Nonhuman primates are housed in isosexual pairs and groups whenever possible.

Year Published: 1998Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Cattle, Chicken, Equine, Goat, Nonhuman Primate, Other Animal, Pig, Rabbit, Sheep

Citation: Watson, L. M., Weed, J. L. 1998. Managing the environmental enrichment program for nonhuman primates and domestic farm animals housed at the National Institutes of Health. American Journal of Primatology 45, 211-212 (Abstract).

Socialization of the laboratory rabbit in a commercial production/maturation environment

The defined socialization and enrichment protocol proved to be successful in reducing the incidence of behaviorally unusable .. rabbits to 0.5%.

Year Published: 1999Topics: Environmental Enrichment, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Rabbit

Citation: Ferry, L., Fetter, B. 1999. Socialization of the laboratory rabbit in a commercial production/maturation environment. American Association for Laboratory Animal Science [AALAS] Meeting Official Program, 35 (Abstract).

Unique approach to the housing of dogs used in medical research

A facility design is described allowing for a high ambition of environmental enrichment; group housing with various group sizes, but with individual feeding; and access to indoor, as well as outdoor run.

Year Published: 1999Topics: Housing, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Dog

Citation: Wilsson, M., Broutigam, J., Kihlbom, E.-L. et al. 1999. Unique approach to the housing of dogs used in medical research. American Association for Laboratory Animal Science [AALAS] Meeting Official Program, 6 (Abstract).

A behavioral comparison of male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in four different housing conditions

Animals in socially restricted housing [single-housing, single-housing with intermittent social contact] paced significantly more, locomoted significantly less and were more aggressive than subjects housed in groups.

Year Published: 2000Topics: Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Chase, W. K., Marinus, L. M., Novak, M. A. 2000. A behavioral comparison of male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in four different housing conditions. American Journal of Primatology 51, Supplement 1, 51 (Abstract).

The benefits of social enrichment for zoo-housed primates

Year Published: 2000Topics: Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Bassett, L. 2000. The benefits of social enrichment for zoo-housed primates. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Zoo Research . 53-62. Federation of Zoological Gardens of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK.

50-kHz chirping (laughter?) in response to conditioned and unconditioned tickle-induced reward in rats: effects of social housing and genetic variables

In these studies the incidence of conditioned and unconditioned 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in young rats was measured in response to rewarding manual tickling by an experimenter. We found that isolate-housed animals vocalize much more then socially housed ones, and...

Year Published: 2000Topics: Emotion, Pain, & Sentience, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Panksepp, J., Burgdorf, J. 2000. 50-kHz chirping (laughter?) in response to conditioned and unconditioned tickle-induced reward in rats: effects of social housing and genetic variables. Behavioural Brain Research 115, 25-38.

Effects of different degrees of social isolation on the behaviour of weaned piglets kept for experimental purposes

The effect of degree of isolation on the behaviour of weaned piglets was investigated using eight replicates of littermates, weaned at 4 weeks and caged for 2 weeks in metabolism chambers under varying degrees of isolation: i) fully isolated without...

Year Published: 2000Topics: Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Pig

Citation: Herskin, M. S., Jensen, K. H. 2000. Effects of different degrees of social isolation on the behaviour of weaned piglets kept for experimental purposes. Animal Welfare 9, 237-249.