Responses to Economic Games of Cooperation and Conflict in Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis) [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2019 Games from experimental economics have provided insights into the evolutionary roots of social decision making in primates and other species. Multiple primate species’ abilities to cooperate, coordinate and anti-coordinate have been tested utilizing ...
Gillian L. Vale +4 more
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Development of an optogenetic toolkit for neural circuit dissection in squirrel monkeys [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 Optogenetic tools have opened a rich experimental landscape for understanding neural function and disease. Here, we present the first validation of eight optogenetic constructs driven by recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors and a WGA-Cre ...
Daniel J. O’Shea +12 more
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Comprehensive Surgical Management of Massive Oesophageal Hiatal Hernia in Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and ScienceBackground Literature remains scant regarding the subset termed ‘massive hiatal hernias’. This case report delineates the surgical management and subsequent outcomes of two squirrel monkeys diagnosed with massive hiatal hernias.
Siyuan Li +4 more
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Using Social Network Analysis to Assess ‘Groupness’ in a Mixed-Species Zoo Exhibit of Tufted Capuchins (Sapajus apella) and Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) [PDF]
AnimalsMixed-species groups have been recorded in various primates, including tufted capuchin and squirrel monkeys. Measures of their ‘groupness’ are typically based on factors such as group stability, social interactions, proximity, or behavioural coordination.
Sophia Daoudi-Simison +2 more
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Morphological and Molecular Identification of Tritrichomonas mobilensis in Captive Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) [PDF]
Veterinary SciencesIn September 2024, an acute hemorrhagic diarrhea occurred in a colony of captive ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) housed adjacent to an enclosure of squirrel monkeys in Henan Province, China. Three of the ring-tailed lemurs (1-year-old females) died, and
Chaowu Fu +5 more
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Cup tool use by squirrel monkeys. [PDF]
Am J Primatol, 2015 Captive‐born male and female squirrel monkeys spontaneously ‘invented’ a cup tool use technique to Contain (i.e., hold and control) food they reduced into fragments for consumption and to Contain water collected from a valve to drink. Food cup use was observed more frequently than water cup use.
Buckmaster CL +3 more
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Introduced Monkey Populations of Florida - History, Status, and Potential Impacts
EDIS, 2022 At least nine populations of non-human primates have established in Florida since the 1930s. These include three species: rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus), and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sp.).
C. Jane Anderson +4 more
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Cellular immune responses in peripheral blood lymphocytes of Giardia infected squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis) treated with Fenbendazole. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Cellular immune responses were tested to determine the effect of fenbendazole on the function of lymphocytes from Bolivian squirrel monkeys (Samiri boliviensis boliviensis).
Pramod N Nehete +8 more
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Squirrel Monkey Behavior in Research [PDF]
ILAR Journal, 2000 Squirrel monkeys have been a valuable animal model in biomedical research (Abee 2000). They have been utilized in a wide variety of study areas including, but not limited to, atherosclerosis, neuroscience, pharmacology, psychiatry, toxicology, and vision research.
L, Williams, M, Glasgow
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Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance, 2020 Nonhuman primates are often used in biomedical research and to investigate physiologic processes that occur in man. Impedance plethysmography was used to measure calf, thigh, pelvic, abdominal, and thoracic volume changes in ten Rhesus and eight squirrel
Montgomery Leslie David, Oloff Clarence
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