Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology: Handling, anaesthesia, health evaluation and biological sampling

摘要: INTRODUCTION Primatologists capture wild primates for many reasons, including medical screening (Chapter 1), sampling endocrinology, genetics 21) and physiology 19), or marking radiotelemetry 10). Since handling is always accompanied by the risk of injury mortality, it ethically important to maximize information gathered during these procedures (Karesh et al ., 1998). You should therefore collect biological samples every time are handled. New techniques also emerging where disease data can be obtained remotely (Jensen 2009; Leendertz 2004) we encourage researchers obtain using least invasive methods available. Infectious agents affect population dynamics, ecology, behaviour reproductive success, health issues thus widely recognized as factors in wildlife conservation (Daszak 2000; Deem 2001). Primates deserve special attention general because potential exchange between non-human humans (zoonoses) 1). The status diseases free-living primates, inter-relationships other parameters, more generally baseline parameters under natural conditions, rapidly growing areas research. Moreover, infectious a cause concern 1; 2006) primate themselves have been origin (Kondgen 2008).