Best practice in the accomodation and care of primates used in scientific procedures. Medical Research Council (MRC).
Online: http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/downloaddoc.asp?id=92
Description: Made available online by the UK's National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), this ethics guide provides information about experimental design, accomodation and environment (including enrichment, social housing and foraging), handling and training, and veterinary care.
Catarrhine Café Cookbook. Psychological Well being Program, Washington National Primate Research Center.
Online: http://www.wanprc.org/wanprc/cookbook-forExternal.pdf
Description: Compiled by R. Bellanca and D. Koberstein, the cookbook contains foraging enrichment ideas originally intended for macaques and baboons but applicable for other species of non-human primates. It includes “Tricks of the Trade,” recipes, and examples of enrichment items.
Chimpanzee Enrichment. Peter Dickinson, Welsh Mountain Zoo.
Online: http://www.aszk.org.au/Husbandry%20Manuals/Chimpanzee%20Enrichment.pdf
Description: This article is a compilation of chimpanzee enrichment ideas. It includes a checklist for enrichment items to fill in prior to providing the animals with new items and gives an example of a weekly rotation of enrichment.
Comfortable Quarters for Nonhuman Primates in Research Institutions. Reinhardt, V.
Online: http://www.awionline.org/pubs/cq02/Cq-prim.html
Description: Published by the Animal Welfare Institute, Comfortable Quarters offers suggestions and recommendations about how husbandry-related variables can be minimized or avoided thereby maximizing the animals' well-being and reducing the number of subjects required to obtain reliable research data.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park ® Animal Enrichment Program Course.
Online: http://www.animalenrichment.org/
Description: Provides information about the enrichment framework used to devise enrichment programs for animals at the Animal Kingdom. Includes an introduction to enrichment and steps to set up and evaluate an enrichment program.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park ® Animal Training Program Course.
Online: http://www.animaltraining.org/
Description: Provides information about the framework used to train animals at the Animal Kingdom. The web site provides information on learning theory and training terminology; working within an animal's current facility, species natural history, and individual background; and the process of creating a training program, from setting goals to implementation and evaluation.
Enrichment for Nonhuman Primates. National Institutes of Health, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare.
Online: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/Enrichment_for_Nonhuman_Primates.pdf
Description: This is a set of six booklets providing an overview of behavior and enrichment for baboons, capuchins, chimpanzees, macaques, marmosets and tamarins, and squirrel monkeys commonly used in research, education and entertainment. You may request a hard copy of any of the booklets, by emailing the NIH, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) at olaw@od.nih.gov.
Enrichment Online.
Online: http://www.enrichmentonline.org/browse/index.asp
Description: Provided by The Fort Worth Zoo, in conjunction with the American Institute of Biological Sciences for use in zoo as well as laboratory settings. The key component of the site is a search engine for taxa-specific enrichment ideas. In addition to accommodating detailed searches for enrichment ideas, the database is interactive and allows users to input their own ideas and to also provide comments on items already in the database.
Environmental Enrichment for Caged Macaques: A Photographic Documentation. Reinhardt, V. and Reinhardt, A.
Online: http://www.awionline.org/lab_animals/rhesus/Photo.htm
Description: A walk-through electronic slideshow developed by Viktor Reinhardt and David Seelig containing 60 photographs of enrichment techniques for laboratory rhesus macaques. Sections are divided into Animate Environmental Enrichment and Inanimate Environmental Enrichment. The publication is also available as a book. To request a free copy, send an e-mail to: viktorawi@yahoo.com.
Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals. American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK).
Online: http://www.aazk.org/committees/enrichment/comm_enrichment_title.php
Description: AAZK's Enrichment Committee provides "animal caregivers the means in which to enrich, stimulate, and challenge the lives of the animals in their care." The committee augments the "Enrichment Options" column in the Animal Keepers' Forum and in The Shape of Enrichment newsletter to provide a means for communicating ideas, techniques and information about enrichment. The website provides definitions, information about health and safety concerns, printed resources, the enrichment video library, suggested guidelines for enrichment, and links to useful web sites.
Environmental Enrichment for Lorises and Pottos.
Online: http://www.loris-conservation.org/database/Enrichment/Enrichment.html
Description: This site provides basic information on biology and behavior and details enrichment methods intended to promote specific behaviors.
Great Ape Trust of Iowa.
Online: http://www.iowagreatapes.org/index.php
Description: A world-class research center dedicated to providing sanctuary and an honorable life for great apes, studying the intelligence of great apes, advancing conservation of great apes and providing unique educational experiences about great apes. Formerly known as the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary.
International Directory of Primatology.
Online: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/
Description: A directory of the field of primatology including detailed information about organizations, field studies, population management, people active in primatology, and information resources. The online directory is searchable and available at the above website.
IPS International Guidelines for the Aquisition, Care and Breeding of Nonhuman Primates 2006. International Primatological Society.
Online: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/ips/IPSGuidelinesRevisedDRAFT.DOC
Description: These guidelines, prepared by the Captive Care and Breeding Committee, aim to promote good practice in the acquisition, care and breeding of primates and the enhancement of welfare.
Laboratory Primate Newsletter.
Online: http://www.brown.edu/Research/Primate/
Contact Information:
Psychology Department, Box 1853 Brown University Providence Rhode Island 02912 USA
Tel: (401) 863-2511; Fax: (401) 863-1300
E-mail: primate@brown.edu
Description: The quarterly newsletter provides information of interest to people involved in nonhuman primate research. A Directory of Graduate Programs in Primatology and Primate Research is issued periodically. The newsletter is available by e-mail or on the web. To subscribe, send the message: Subscribe LPN-L your-own-name to listserv@listserv.brown.edu. The website contains all issues of Laboratory Primate Newsletter, policies, graduate programs, and related links. The site also contains a very useful environmental enrichment section called Articles on Environmental Enrichment and Psychological Well-being which contains all articles on environmental enrichment and psychological well-being that were printed in the newsletter from 1984-2003. The site topics are social enrichment, environmental enrichment, training, physiological and other measures of stress and psychological well-being, rearing and social development, colony management, editorials, and information resources. Articles are available full text and free of charge.
Practical Enrichment Options for Animals Kept in Research Institutions.
Online: http://www.awionline.org/lab_animals/LAREF/enriop.htm
Description: A searchable database of enrichment ideas and practical tips collected from the Laboratory Animal Refinment and Enrichment Forum (LAREF) and other published information.
Primate Info Net (PIN).
Online: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/
Description: PIN is a comprehensive website relating to all aspects of primatology maintained by the Wisconsin Primate Research Center (WPRC) Library (http://library.primate.wisc.edu/) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The website includes information services, organizations and programs, information resources, products and services for primates, and related sites.
Primate Resource Referral Service (PRRS).
Online: http://www.wanprc.org/prrs/
Contact Information:
Primate Resource Referral Service, Washington National Primate Research Center Box 357330 University of Washington Seattle Washington 98195-7330 USA
Tel: (206) 543-5178; Fax: (206) 616-1710
E-mail: prrs@bart.rprc.washington.edu
Description: The PRRS provides communication between research institutions to facilitate exchanges of nonhuman primates or their tissues. The goal of the PRRS is to increase sharing of these animals, thereby decreasing the need to import animals for research, and to ultimately decrease the number of animals needed. The PRRS maintains a database of information about programs, sources, services, available/wanted animals, tissues, and primate equipment.
PrimateLit.
Online: http://primatelit.library.wisc.edu/
Contact Information:
Library and Information Service, Wisconsin Primate Research Center University of Wisconsin 1220 Capitol Court Madison Wisconsin 53715 USA
Tel: (608) 263-3512;
E-mail: library@primate.wisc.edu
Description: PrimateLit is a bibliographical database for primatology and exists through a cooperative agreement between the Washington (WaNRPC) and Wisconsin (WRPC) National Primate Research Centers. The WPRC coordinates the project with technical support from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Library Technology Group. Literature acquisition, analysis, and indexing are carried out by the Primate Information Center at the WaNRPC, University of Washington. The database, which is updated twice a month and contains records dating from 1940, allows primate researchers to do their bibliographic research on their home or office computers.
The Shape of Enrichment.
Online: http://www.enrichment.org
Description: A nonprofit corporation with aims to further environmental enrichment efforts worldwide. A quarterly publication called The Shape of Enrichment provides an open forum to exchange enrichment ideas among animal professionals. There is also an enrichment and training video library maintained in conjunction with the American Association of Zoo Keepers. Finally, the bi-annual International Conference on Environmental Enrichment is promoted on the Web site.
Teaching Materials - American Society of Primatologists.
Online: http://www.asp.org/education/teaching.html
Description: Provides links to resources for people interested in learning more about nonhuman primates, or for teachers who would like to teach about primates in their classroom.
Training Laboratory-Housed Nonhuman Primates: A Survey of Current Practice in the UK. Prescott, M. J. and Buchanan Smith, H. M.
Online: http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/downloaddoc.asp?id=215
Description: This is a powerpoint presentation that presents an overview of the literature about training nonhuman primates to cooperate in the laboratory environment. It also provides data from a questionnaire about the current status of training in UK facilities.
The Welfare of Non-human Primates Used in Research, Report of the Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare .
Online: http://www.aisal.org/pages/doc_vari/out83_en.pdf
Description: A report prepared for the European Union (EU) Commission about the welfare of non-human primates used for experiments, adopted on December 17, 2002. Includes information about various enrichment aspects such as social housing, animal training, and provision of visual barriers.