Titlebook: Nonhuman Primate Welfare; From History, Scienc Lauren M. Robinson,Alexander Weiss Book 2023 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 Primates.We

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Welfare of Primates in Laboratories: Opportunities for Refinementcause pain, suffering, distress, or lasting harm. These harms, combined with keeping primates in restricted laboratory conditions, are balanced against the potential (primarily human) benefits gained from their use. In this chapter, we provide a brief overview of the use of primates in laboratories,

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Primates Under Human Care in Developing Countries: Examples From Latin America in ex situ settings is sharply increasing. With limited facilities and relocation programs, rescue centers in Latin American countries are frequently overcrowded and rarely meet basic welfare conditions. In this chapter we provide an outlook of primate-human co-existence in Latin America and give a

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Using Behavior to Assess Primate Welfare. One means of measuring primate welfare is by assessing the animal’s behavior. Herein, we review commonly used behavioral indices for measuring welfare. The first is abnormal behavior, which is defined as behavior that differs in kind or degree from natural behavior. Abnormal behavior can indicate

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Cognitive Bias Tasks: A New Set of Approaches to Assess Welfare in Nonhuman Primatesure, cognitive bias describes how emotions such as anxiety and depression are associated with changes in the way the brain processes information. For example, studies with humans have long demonstrated that anxious people are more vigilant for negative cues and depressed people interpret the proverb

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Questionnaires and Their Use in Primate Welfarennaires. The latter allows scientists to explore the individual primate’s attitudes and behavior, as well as trends across groups. Questionnaires have been used to obtain an estimate of animals’ personality, behavior, health, well-being, and more. Quantitative questionnaires allow for comparisons be

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Meeting Cognitive, Behavioral, and Social Needs of Primates in Captivity dominance groups, and individuals. Interventions that increase species typical behaviors and/or reduce atypical behaviors or stress for one species, group, individual, or context may cause the opposite in others. One area that has recently gained substantial attention is species’ cognitive needs, w

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Primate Breeding Colonies: Colony Management and Welfareent, and management of social behavior. We emphasize that all four areas are of critical importance to the ethical and healthy productions of these animals. We explore in detail the needs for record keeping and pedigree maintenance when breeding primates, including genetic and demographic management

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