COLAB
LABORATORY OF STUDIES ON COEXISTENCE
EX-SITU RESEARCH
Since 2008 our group conducts periodical screening of the clinical, physiological, and cognitive conditions of capuchin monkeys kept at rescue centers and at zoos in northeast Brazil, usually coming from illegal trafficking.
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Before the release, they need to learn to be wild again.
Enrichment and management procedures are designed to improve welfare of these individuals, along with protocols to rehabilitate social, locomotor, manipulative and predator avoidance skills of individuals apt to release.
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Go through our slides to see examples of our enrichment technics:
Sand tanks stimulate the foraging of seeds and insets
Taken by Vitória Fernandes Nunes
Email for Copyright: vivinunes@msn.com
Another important part of our research is to collect individual fecal samples to analyze a hormone indicator of stress: Cortisol.
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Together with focal observations and behavioral tests, we can create a individual profile for the monkeys, rearrange the groups, chose the ones that will be released and even predict how they will behave and survive once released.
REINTRODUCTION
All individuals receive vacines and a microchip for identification.
Sand tanks stimulate the foraging of seeds and insets
VETERINARY EXAMS
All individuals receive vacines and a microchip for identification.
