Overview
- The authors include some of today’s most renowned primatologists, psychologists and immunologists
- Includes historical overview of nursery rearing practices
- Covers breeding of endangered species for conservation and research
- Reviews and analyzes current findings, opinions, and future recommendations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR)
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Nursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century describes how and why nursery rearing of primates can produce adaptable juveniles and adults for research, conservation, and display-educational purposes. The volume details the history of nursery rearing since the mid-19th century, the outcomes of varied nursery rearing methods, the contemporary goals of nursery rearing as well as reference data derived from species commonly reared in nursery or hand-feeding situations.
Examples of the changing goals of nursery rearing covered in this volume are the need for biological containment in disease research, the production of specific pathogen-free colonies by removal of neonates from the mother, the production of phenotypes for genetic and molecular biology studies, and the breeding of endangered species for conservation or research purposes.
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Introduction to Section 4: Nursery Care Methodology and Testing Techniques for the Future
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Introduction to Section 5: Hematology and Serum Chemistry Values
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book provides both basic and applied information pertaining to the consequences and interventions used in nursery rearing. … This volume is very comprehensive and provides an excellent resource for scientists interested in the effect of early differential rearing on behavioral and physiological development. … In summary, this book is well organized, well written, and informative. It is an excellent contribution to the practical and research findings on primate infant development." (William D. Hopkins, Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 82, June, 2007)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nursery Rearing of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century
Editors: Gene P. Sackett, Gerald C. Ruppentahal, Kate Elias
Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-25640-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25632-0Published: 29 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9206-2Published: 04 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-25640-5Published: 10 May 2010
Series ISSN: 1574-3489
Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 602
Topics: Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Anthropology, Zoology, Behavioral Sciences