Produced by Ross Barker, Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. This program is designed to give caretakers an understanding of primate behaviors and develop a kind and respectful philosophy of care. Also shown are a variety of examples of abnormal behavior developed when animals become stressful that caretakers should learn to identify. She addresses housing and handling of primates. Possible diseases affecting primates include tuberculosis, shigella, herpesvirus, poxviruses, hepatitis, measles and vitamin D3 deficiency.
Techniques shown are TB testing in primates and blood collection.
Produced by the MIT Committee on Animal Care, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This video is designed to aid institutions in providing effective education to animal research personnel as required by government regulations and guidelines. Included are discussions of the ethical and moral issues concerning animal research, the responsibility of research personnel for ensuring humane treatment of research animals, applicable legislative and regulatory guidelines, the role of institutional Animal Care and Use committees, and the issue of alternatives to animals in research. This video is designed for teaching about primate and human communication and interaction analysis between two species. It is at a very introductory level, but provides material which students can use to practice observations on primate communication, reveals attitudes about primates through verbal and non-verbal cues, and helps to clarify some levels at which information transfer occurs.