Nursery Care of Nonhuman Primates (Advances in Primatology)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Clinical Indications for Caesarean Section in the Rhesus Monkey ( Macaca mulatta )....Pages 3-19 Effects of Parental Risk and Prenatal Stress on Pregnancy Outcome....Pages 21-26 Gross Placental Morphology and Pregnancy Outcome in Macaca nemestrina ....Pages 27-34 Serological Materno-Fetal Incompatibility in Nonhuman Primates....Pages 35-42 Prenatal Protein and Zinc Malnutrition in the Rhesus Monkey, Macaca mulatta ....Pages 43-58 Front Matter....Pages 59-59 Age Determinants in Neonatal Primates: A Comparison of Growth Factors....Pages 61-78 Assessment of Skeletal Growth and Maturation of Premature and Term Macaca nemestrina ....Pages 79-91 Age Determination in Macaque Fetuses and Neonates....Pages 93-115 Serum Bilirubin Levels in Full-Term and Premature Macaca nemestrina ....Pages 117-124 Development of Basic Physiological Parameters and Sleep-Wakefulness Patterns in Normal and at-Risk Neonatal Pigtail Macaques ( Macaca nemestrina )....Pages 125-142 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Nursery Rearing of Infant Baboons....Pages 145-151 Growth and Development of Infant Squirrel Monkeys during the First Six Months of Life....Pages 153-164 Survey of Protocols for Nursery-Rearing Infant Macaques....Pages 165-185 Ponderal Growth in Colony- and Nursery-Reared Pigtail Macaques ( Macaca nemestrina )....Pages 187-201 Monitoring and Apnea Alarm for Infant Primates: Apparatus....Pages 203-213 Monitoring and Apnea Alarm for Infant Primates: Practical and Research Applications....Pages 215-225 Survey of Neonatal and Infant Disease in Macaca nemestrina ....Pages 227-235 Front Matter....Pages 237-237 Factors Influencing Survival and Development of Macaca nemestrina and Macaca fascicularis Infants in a Harem Breeding Situation....Pages 239-252 The Intellectual Consequences of Early Social Restriction in Rhesus Monkeys ( Macaca Mulatta )....Pages 253-267 Experimental and Husbandry Procedures: Their Impact on Development....Pages 269-284 Front Matter....Pages 285-285 Hand-Rearing Infant Gibbons....Pages 287-298 Care of the Infant and Juvenile Gibbon ( Hylobates lar )....Pages 299-305 Hand-Rearing Infant Callitrichids ( Saguinus spp and Callithrix jacchus ), Owl Monkeys ( Aotus trivirgatus ), and Capuchins ( Cebus albifrons )....Pages 307-312 Hand-Rearing Saguinus and Callithrix Genera of Marmosets....Pages 313-319 Weight Gains and Sequence of Dental Eruptions in Infant Owl Monkeys ( Aotus trivirgatus )....Pages 321-328 Back Matter....Pages 329-333