Abstract The urban landscape is a complex mosaic of costs and benefits for wildlife. Although many species may adapt thrive in the mosaic, complexity this can be stressful have health implications wildlife, raising concerns zoonosis biodiversity. In study, we assessed how human–primate interactions influenced parasite risk anxiety-related behaviour vervet monkeys KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Ov...

CI-744 is a new agent for chemical restraint and surgical anesthesia in animals, consisting of equal parts by weight of the cataleptoid agent tiletamine-HCl and the tranquilizer zolazepam-HCl. We have used it in the intramuscular dose of five to ten milligrams per kilogram to anesthetize 110 cynomolgus and 10 vervet monkeys a total of 1,500 times for various ophthalmological procedures. At thes...

An experimental luting resin became available for evaluation o f its pulpal irritation potential. The ma­ terial is a high molecular weight urethane-di-methacrylate which does not require a thinning mo­ nomer such as tri-ethylene-glycol-di-methacrylate (TEGMA). In each o f 24 anaesthetized adult vervet monkeys labial cavities were cut in each o f the 8 inci­ sor teeth. In each monkey 2 randomly...

Prenatal exposure to beverage alcohol is a major cause of mild mental retardation and developmental delay. In nonendangered alcohol-preferring vervet monkeys, we modeled the most common nondysmorphic form of fetal alcohol syndrome disorder with voluntary drinking during the third trimester of pregnancy. Here, we report significant numerical reductions in the principal hippocampal neurons of fet...