10: Clinical / Husbandry / Management

Custom Designed Experimental Housing for Marmosets

D.G. Layne1¹, R.A. Power², G. Branson³, K. Pittman⁴, D. Pratt³, D. Bush⁴ and S.D. Tardif¹

Affiliation: ¹Southwest National Primate Research Center, San Antonio, TX; ²Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA; ³Biology Services Facility, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; and ⁴LGL Animal Care Products, Inc., Bryan, TX

With marmosets emerging as one of the biomedical model species in between rodents and the larger, Old World primates, experimental equipment and housing that is commercially available for use with rodents or other primates is often rigged to fit the need. While it is true that marmosets are about the size of rats in terms of body weight (350-500g) their natural posture, locomotion, and social requirements are not the same. This presentation will describe the development and use of two experimental housing units: 1) a cage set and collection system for use in metabolic balance trials (24-72h) by a lactating female with infant(s) and 2) a cage for housing and handling marmosets in bio-safety level 4 conditions.

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