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This quarter’s Hot Topic in Primate Welfare features the top 10 things to know about captive marmoset behavioral management, summarized by Dr. Corinna (Cory) Ross. Dr. Ross is an Associate Professor and the Associate Director of Research at the Southwest National Primate Research Center at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute. Dr. Ross began working with […]

For our spring 2022 feature, we highlight the work of Pamela Cunneyworth, the director at Colobus Conservation in Kenya. Dr. Cunneyworth works to understand and reduce human-primate conflict in the coastal town of Diani, Kenya. We interviewed her about a study recently published in the International Journal of Primatology: Impact of Electric Shock and Electrocution […]

This quarter’s Hot Topic in Primate Welfare features the work of Andrea Franklin, the winner of the 2021 American Society of Primatologists Primate Welfare Award. Ms. Franklin is a primate training specialist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University. In her study, a functional analysis (FA) was conducted on a male rhesus macaque […]