Research Needs in Captive Primate Colonies

Abstract

When the speakers for this conference were invited to participate, they were also admonished to highlight areas that demand attention for research. Specifically, they were challenged to address questions whose resolution, accomplished by targeted research, would materially aid in the creation of self-sustaining populations of captive primates. The following, then, are the most important points brought out in presentations and their discussions; however, most papers here reproduced will raise additional topics whose pursuit is deemed important and which might serve as guideposts to funding agencies.