AZA Animal Care Manuals – the latest scientifically-based information about caring for these animals in captive situations.
Husbandry Manuals – older guides that are currently being replaced by the Animal Care Manuals above
- Bonobo
- Callitrichid
- Chimpanzee
- Cotton Top Tamarin
- Golden Lion Tamarin
- Gorilla
- Orangutan
- Ring-tailed Lemur
Recommended resources for developing primate nutrition programs:
- Quality control of feedstuffs: nutrient analyses
- Assessment of nutritional status of captive and free-ranging animals
- Leaf-eating primates: nutrition and dietary husbandry
- Feeding captive insectivorous animals: nutritional aspects of insects as food
Primate research articles from our conference proceedings:
- Analysis of nutrients, moisture loss, and vitamin stability in primate browse harvested at the San Diego Zoo
- Nutritionally complete food-free diets for primates: potential benefits and concerns
- Associations between diet, gut microbial communities, and health in red-shanked doucs (Pygathrix nemaeus): a model for the subfamily colobinae
- Nutrition therapy for human gastrointestinal disorders and application to captive non-human primates
- Case study: unintended consequences of addressing GI distress in a siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus)
- Stronger than yesterday: new nutrient recommendations for lorisine primates
- Fruit-free diets for primates
- Examination of palatability of extruded primate diet using three flavors
- Energy requirements of captive non-human primates
- Cholesterol concentrations in free-ranging gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and (Gorilla beringei) and Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)
- Colitis in captive tamarins displayed on semi-natural mixed species exhibits in a North American zoo
- Complications associated with diet manipulation in callimico (Callimico goeldii)
- BIOACTIVE FACTORS IN MILK: COMPARISONS ACROSS NONHUMAN PRIMATES AND HUMANS
- Chemical composition of foods eaten by African colobines compared with Southeast Asian colobines
- Determination of tannin levels in various plants and their possible effect on iron chelation in lemurs
- Case Study: Elimination diet for a female orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus abelii) with digestive problems at the Toronto Zoo
- Energy and protein supplies to captive orangutans
- Fiber digestibility in black lemurs (Eulemur Macaco Macaco)
- Macronutrient composition of plants consumed by wild black and white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegate) in Betampona Natural Reserve, Madagascar
- The effects of fiber type and fiber levels on digestibility and volatile fatty acid formation in the Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
- The influence of plant chemistry on browse choice in Angolan Colobus Monkeys (Colobus angolensis palliates)
- Ingestion of Viburnum x rhytidophylloides ‘Alleghany’ potentially lethal to White-Mantled Black Colobus (Colobus guereza)
- Nutritional composition of the diet of Alouatta palliate Mexicana females in different reproductive states
- Effect of dietary fiber concentration on apparent digestibility and digesta passage in non-human primates. II. Hindgut-and Foregut fermenting folivores.
- Relationship between feeding time and food intake in hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) and the value of feeding time as predictor of food intake.
- Nutrient composition of selected plant species consumed by semi free-ranging lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) and ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, U.S.A.
- Serum concentrations of lipids, vitamins A and E, vitamin D metabolites, and carotenoids in nine primate species at four zoos
- When to feed on gums: temporal patterns of gummivory in wild tamarins, Saguinus mystax and Saguinus fuscicollis (Callitrichiae)
- Vitamin D metabolites 25(OH)D and 1,25(OH)2D and Kidney function indices and the relationship to diet in Goeldi’s monkeys (Callimico goeldii)
- The use of fecal inoculum to determine the rate and extent of in vitro fermentation for cellulose, beet pulp, citrus pulp, and citrus pectin across three lemur species: Varecia variegate, Eulemur fulvus, and Hapalemur griseus
- Trace element intake of Cercopithecinae
- Browse species preference and palatability of Colobus guereza kikuyuensis at the Denver Zoological Gardens
- A survey of Vitamin A, D and E nutritional status in captive Black and White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegate variegate)
- Chemical composition of Southeast Asian Colobine foods
- Secondary compounds in foods selected by free-ranging primates on St. Catherines Island, GA
- Do new world primates really have elevated needs for protein and Vitamin D?
- Food, behavioral enrichment, and primates: some guidelines
- Digestive efficiency and passage rate in two propithecus species fed in a captive diet
- The influence of dietary fiber on digestibility, passage rate, and body mass in captive baboons (Papio Anubis)
- Vitamin D and Primates: Recurring Problems on a Familiar Theme
- Callitrichids: nutrition and dietary and husbandry
- Leaf-eating primates: nutrition and dietary husbandry
- Orangutan Nutrition
- Gorilla Nutrition
- Cotton Top Tamarin Nutrition
- The Care and Management of Chimpanzees in Captive Environments
- Bonobo Nutrition – Relation of Captive Diet to Wild Diet