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Measuring Gut Passage Times in Small New World Monkeys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2023

E C Price
E C Price*
Affiliation:
Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, Trinity, Jersey, British Isles Present address: Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK
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Abstract

A simple technique for investigating gut passage times in small New World primates was developed, which produced good results without any need for special housing or diet, or for the separation of monkeys from their groups. This technique, which allowed the administration of a faecal marker, chromium oxide, to specific individuals, was used to investigate gut passage times in five species of the genera Callithrix, Saguinus, Leontopithecus and Callimico. Overall, average gut passage time was 4.5 hours, and there were no species differences. Such nondisruptive methods could help in assessing the effects of dietary changes in captive monkeys, and therefore be of considerable value in improving captive diets and hence welfare and breeding success.

Keywords

animal welfaredietfaecal markerGoeldi's monkeysgut passage timemarmosetstamarins
Type
Technical Contribution
Information
Animal Welfare , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , November 1993 , pp. 347 - 352
Copyright
© 1993 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

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