Nursery Care of Nonhuman Primates

The Infant Primate Research Laboratory at the University of Washington was conceived in 1970 as a small research Wlit primarily for support of two individual's interests in early develop­ ment of nonhuman primates. Because of their research emphasis, a modest nursery was required to support a small population of animals for specific experimental studies. The laboratory experi­ enced rapid growth when others at the University became interested in the use of monkeys as models for early development and mental retardation in humans. In 1972 the Wlit was formally established as a core facility of the Child Development and Mental Retardation Center and the Regional Primate Research Center. This joint administrative and financial support allowed us to invest considerable effort in the development of normative data for rearing animals in our nursery as well as for identifying, documenting, and rearing subjects at high risk for neonatal death. As part of that effort, every attempt has been made to promote a multidisciplinary approach to ques­ tions associated with rearing nonhuman primates. This volume includes much of the information thus gathered. I feel that such an approach is essential to the promotion of scientific principles in rearing and has allowed the laboratory to contribute to prima­ tology.

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Section I. Prenatal Influences.- 1 Clinical Indications for Caesarean Section in the Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta).- 2 Effects of Parental Risk and Prenatal Stress on Pregnancy Outcome.- 3 Gross Placental Morphology and Pregnancy Outcome in Macaca nemestrina.- 4 Serological Materno-Fetal Incompatibility in Non-human Primates.- 5 Prenatal Protein and Zinc Malnutrition in the Rhesus Monkey, Macaca mulatta.- Section II. Early Assessment.- 6 Age Determinants in Neonatal Primates: A Comparison of Growth Factors.- 7 Assessment of Skeletal Growth and Maturation of Premature and Term Macaca nemestrina.- 8 Age Determination in Macaque Fetuses and Neonates.- 9 Serum Bilirubin Levels in Full-Term and Premature Macaca nemestrina.- 10 Development of Basic Physiological Parameters and Sleep-Wakefulness Patterns in Normal and At-Risk Neonatal Pigtail Macaques (Macaca nemestrina).- Section III. Health, Diet, and Growth.- 11 Nursery-Rearing of Infant Baboons.- 12 Growth and Development of Infant Squirrel Monkeys During the First Six Months of Life.- 13 Survey of Protocols for Nursery-Rearing Infant Macaques.- 14 Ponderal Growth in Colony- and Nursery-Reared Pigtail Macaques (Macaca nemestrina).- 15 Monitoring and Apnea Alarm for Infant Primates: Apparatus.- 16 Monitoring and Apnea Alarm for Infant Primates: Practical and Research Applications.- 17 Survey of Neonatal and Infant Disease in Macaca nemestrina.- Section IV. Housing and Social Development.- 18 Factors Influencing Survival and Development of Macaca nemestrina and Macaca fascicularis Infants in a Harem Breeding Situation.- 19 The Intellectual Consequences of Early Social Restriction in Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta).- 20 Experimental and Husbandry Procedures: Their Impact on Development.- Section V. Care of Exotic Species.- 21 Hand-Rearing Infant Gibbons.- 22 Care of the Infant and Juvenile Gibbon (Hylobates lar).- 23 Hand-Rearing Infant Callitrichida (Saquinus spp and Callithrix jacchus), Owl Monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus), and Capuchins (Cebus albifrons).- 24 Hand-Rearing Saquinus and Callithrix Genera of Marmosets.- 25 Weight Gains and Sequence of Dental Eruptions in Infant Owl Monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus).