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The following videos are selected presentations on social housing of rabbits, pigs, and nonhuman primates as well as history and perspectives on socially housing laboratory animals. The 2013 Symposium on Social Housing of Laboratory Animals playlist can be viewed on YouTube or as individual videos below.
The 2013 Symposium was held at the National Institutes of Health Natcher Center in Bethesda, Maryland and co-hosted by:
- USDA, NAL, Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC)
- NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)
- The Enrichment Record
- Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
A Historical Perspective on Social Housing
Speaker: Kathryn Bayne, AAALAC International
Federal Oversight and Peer-Review Perspectives on Social Housing: Representatives from AAALAC, USDA, and OLAW
Speakers: Carol Clarke, USDA, APHIS; Brent Morse, NIH, OLAW; and Kathryn Bayne, AAALAC International
Rabbits: Social Housing
Speaker: Karen Froberg, Bio-Serv
Pigs: Social Housing
Speaker: Candace Croney, Purdue University
Socialization of Nonhuman Primate Groups
Speaker: Steven Schapiro, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Socialization: Behavioral Intervention and Temperament Testing
Speaker: Kristine Coleman, Oregon Health & Science University
These presentations are being hosted by the Animal Welfare Information Center, a service of The National Agricultural Library. Staff did not edit or otherwise modify the original materials. The views expressed in the presentations do not necessarily reflect the policies of the National Agricultural Library or the United States Department of Agriculture.