Wild callitrichids carry out only about 4% of their locomotor activities on vertical supports and these supports tend to be over 32 cm (Garber, 1980). Tamarins avoid vertical supports during travel. 8 cm in diameter and in dense vegetation, while 40% of this time on fragile branches is spent hanging from the branch.
About 24% of their feeding/foraging time involves plant material (Garber, 1980, 1984), and 20% of that time (37% of total time) is spent feeding on “fragile” branches under. About 70% of this time involves searching for and capturing insects, and this is done primarily on branches under 3 cm in diameter most climbing and jumping also occurs in pursuit of insects. These tamarins ( Saguinus oedipus geoffroyi) spend about 3 hours/day feeding and foraging. Dense tangles are important, too, in the ecology of the red-crested tamarin (Garber, 1984). Observations of free-ranging common marmosets ( Callithrix jacchus) in semi-natural conditions revealed that they prefer to travel and to forage through the densest of vegetation, in dense networks of thin, flexible, non-woody tangles wherever these are located (Chamove & Rohrhuber, 1989).
It is likely that the presence of protective cover is important for small diurnal primates. Most enrichment studies look at food-relevant (Chamove, 1989) or food-irrelevant (Renner et al., 2000) objects plants are intermediate along such a continuum. Published research (Chamove & Rohrhuber, 1989) suggests that in large outdoor enclosures, the cover provided by leaves is attractive to small primates. I could find no data on the effectiveness of plants in primate enclosures to evaluate this latter assumption. The addition of plants to primate enclosures is generally believed to make the setting more pleasing for observers (Price et al., 1994) and presumably for the occupants as well. It is commonly believed that making an enclosure more natural is an improvement and thereby an enrichment. 26Įnvironmental Enrichment for Monkeys Using Plants 25īehavior and Ecology Courses - Costa Rica Primatology/Ecology Field School - Kenya CLASS Lab Animal Science SeminarĪAALAC International Technician Fellowship Award 2nd Annual Lab Products Animal Technician Award HSUS 2005 Russell and Burch Award NominationsĬampus Veterinarian - NHLBI Associate Operations Manager - Yerkes Licensed Veterinary Technician/Technologist Workshop Announcement: PASA Annual Management Workshop. Primate Info Net Seeking Digital Images ACVP and ASVCP Proceedings Available On-Line Veterinary Virology The Monkey Toy Store Veterinarian - Sierra Leone Kalaweit Rehabilitation Program Perforation Caused Orangutan’s Death New Orangutan Moves to Great Ape Trust Bronx Zoo to Close Island Preserve New Monkey Discovered in Northeastern India Right to Name New Monkey Sells for $650G Gorillas Cross to Rwanda Sylvia Taylor Primate Research Center for HIV/AIDS Opened Proposed Standards of Care for Chimp Sanctuaries Hollywood Apes Retiring to Sanctuary Viet Nam Discovers Special Langur Monkeys Guardian of Ghana’s Monkey Village Dies Kenya Seizes Smuggled Baby Chimps More Organisms Targeted for Genome Sequencing Wolff Director of Compliance Oversight, OLAW NCRR Associate Director of Comparative Medicine Chimps Escape, Attack Visitors at Animal SanctuaryĬall for Papers - JAAWS PNAS Invites Submissions Grants Available: Aging Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity. 5ĪAALAC Student Information More Interesting Websites 6įorage Box as Enrichment in Single- and Group-Housed Callitrichid Monkeys, by A. Report on the Extent and Character of Primate Use in Scientific Procedures across Europe in 2001, by A. Laboratory Primate Newsletter, Volume 44, Number 2Įnvironmental Enrichment for Monkeys Using Plants, by A.
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