This is the Oregon National Primate Research Center Nonhuman Primate Training Specialist. She is training a monkey, Finch, in a group to take medication, which allows him to stay in his colony, instead of being removed to the hospital. Avoiding such removals helps to reduce not only the stress to the monkey, but also helps maintain stability across the whole group.
The colony of rhesus macaques at the California National Primate Research Center consists of infants to adults. Their average life span in…
Two juvenile rhesus macaques explore their environment while being observed as part of an animal enrichment and behavior study at the Wisconsin…
Here a husbandry technician is providing food enrichment to rhesus macaques in their corral. This kind of positive interaction between monkeys and…
These are rhesus macaques housed at the California National Primate Research Center. In the wild, and at the Center, these monkeys live…
