Diagnostic and Therapeutic Guidelines to Abnormal Behavior in Captive Nonhuman Primates

Behavioral abnormalities in captive nonhuman primates.

In this study, we dealt with 11 species of nonhuman primates across 10 zoos in India. We recorded behavior as instantaneous scans between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. In the study, we segregated behaviors for analyses into abnormal, undesirable, active, and resting. The 4 types of abnormal behavior exhibited included floating limb, self-biting, self-clasping, and stereotypic pacing. In the study, we recor...

Behavior of Nonhuman Primates

Cell biology, since the advent of the electron microscope and sophisticated techniques of biochemical analysis and synthesis, has advanced in giant steps that find even experts in the field hard pressed to pace. With the voluminous literature of the discipline, the interested layman or scientist of a different field can easily get lost on the side-roads, losing sight of the general direction. T...

Hematopoietic stem-cell behavior in nonhuman primates.

Little is known about the behavior of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in primates because direct observations and competitive-repopulation assays are not feasible. Therefore, we used 2 different and independent experimental strategies, the tracking of transgene expression after retroviral-mediated gene transfer (N = 11 baboons; N = 7 rhesus macaques) and quantitation of the average telomere len...

Tuberculosis in Nonhuman Primates, - an Overview of Diagnostic Tools

Analysis of a Quantitative Behavioral Assessment Program to Identify and Treat Abnormal Behaviors in Captive Primates