This infant rhesus monkey is being held by a member of the primate services staff at the California National Primate Research Center. The Center features a veterinary hospital that provides care for nearly 4000 monkeys.
Monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center enjoy Halloween pumpkins.
A mother and juvenielle rhesus macaque climb a branch in their outdoor enclosure. They are eating zucchini, one of many vegetables provided as both enrichment and nutrition for these research monkeys.
These are rhesus macaques housed at the California National Primate Research Center. In the wild, and at the Center, these monkeys live in groups of eighty. They spend their days foraging for food hidden by their caretakers, grooming each other and caring for their young. Their enclosures also…
The colony of rhesus macaques at the California National Primate Research Center consists of infants to adults. Their average life span in the wild is 18 years. Monkeys live up to 38 years old at the Center due to the excellent nutrition and medical care provided. The aged…
These outdoor enclosures house monkeys that are on active research studies. They are socially housed and receive many types of enrichment to provide opportunities for foraging, climbing, and interacting with their caregivers. Positive reinforcement training is used to ensure that procedures like blood sampling is done in cooperation…
These mice are part of a study to help understand how HDL cholesterol, “the good cholesterol,"protects people from heart attacks. They are transgenic mice carrying the human gene APOA1, which produces a protein component of HDL cholesterol. Animals with this gene are highly resistant to heart disease. When…
This mouse is on a study to help prevent heart attacks. He lives in a shoebox cage with three other mice. His cage is cleaned regularly and he is provided with fresh food consisting of a high fat diet (to simulate humans prone to heart attacks). He sleeps…
Mice are one of the most common animals needed for research. Most mice do not usually get individual names...but sometimes a technician will develop a special bond with one of their mice, like the technician who named Noel. Noel is a Swiss Webster mouse. Swiss Webster mice are…
A unique womb-like environment designed by pediatric researchers could transform care for extremely premature babies, by mimicking the prenatal fluid-filled environment to give the tiniest newborns a precious few weeks to develop their lungs and other organs. “Our system could prevent the severe morbidity suffered by extremely premature…
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