Behavioral Resources (General):

Primate Care and Welfare Essentials

Website Resources

• Animal Welfare Act
• AAALAC International
• Behavioral Management Consortium (BMC)
• American Society of Primatologists Welfare References
• NC3Rs Welfare of NHPs
• National Primate Research Centers
• International Primatological Society (IPS)

 Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• Canadian Council on Animal Care
• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
• IACUC Review of Nonhuman Primate Research
• NC3Rs NHP Accommodation, Care and Use
• Well-Being of Laboratory NHPs

 Behavior Management Basics

 Website Resources

• BMC Social Group Ethogram
• BMC Abnormal Behavior Ethogram
• BMC Self-injury scoring
• BMC Publications (2011+)

 Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• Assessing Anxiety in NHPs
• Behavioral Management Programs
• Handbook of Primate Behavioral Management
  

Current Topics

 Website Resources

• ASP Hot Topics

  Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• BMC Publications from 2011-2021
  

Alopecia

 Website Resources

• BMC Alopecia scoring

 Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• Alopecia Causes and Treatments

Enrichment

 Website Resources

• ASP References on Enrichment

  Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• Environmental Enrichment in the 21^st Century
• Environmental Enrichment for NHPs
• Southwest National Primate Research Center’s Enrichment Device Manual
• Southwest National Primate Research Center’s Food Enrichment Cookbook
• Washington National Primate Research Center’s Food Enrichment Cookbook

 Food and Fluid Control

  Website Resources

• NC3Rs Food and Fluid Control

 Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• APV Guidelines for Food Restrictions
• APV Guidelines for Use of Fluid Regulation
• Refinement of Food and Fluid Control

 Housing and Husbandry

  Website Resources

• IPS Guide for Acquisition, Care and Breeding (website currently being updated)
• NC3Rs Housing and Husbandry

  Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• Refinements in Husbandry for NHPs

Humane Endpoints

  Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• Quality of Life
• Quality of Life establishing parameters

Retirement and Relocation of Research NHPs

 Website Resources

• ASP Tips on Retiring Research Monkeys

Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• Finding New Homes for Ex-Laboratory Primates
• Guidelines for Post Research Retirement of Nonhuman Primates

Sample Collection

  Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• APV Guidelines for Blood Sampling in Nonhuman Primates 
• APV Guidelines for Cerebrospinal Fluid Aspiration
• APV Laparoscopic Reproductive Manipulation of Female NHPs 
• APV Guideline for Semen Collection in Male NHPs

Socialization

 Website Resources

• ASP References on Social Housing
• BMC Social Group Ethogram
• BMC Standardized documentation of socialization

 Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• APV Socialization Guidelines for NHPs
• Primate Sociality
• Social Buffering

Training Techniques

 Website Resources

• ASP References on Training
• NC3Rs Restraint Training

  Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• An International Survey of Approaches to Chair Restraint
• APV Guidelines for NHP Restraint 
• Cooperative Handling Eliminates Need for Restraint
• Habituation and Desensitization Training
• Implementing Animal Training Programs
• International Survey of Approaches to Chair Restraint
• PRT Quantitative Assessments
• Refining the Pole-and-Collar Method of Restraint
• Training NHPs Using PRT
• Use of PRT to Enhance Care, Management and Welfare

 Transport

 Website Resources

• NC3Rs Best Practice for Animal Transport

 Books/Articles/PDFs/Forms

• Acclimation Following Transportation
• APV Statement on Transportation
• BMC Animal transfer form
• Effects of Transport, Relocation and Acclimation