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Reproduction of the owl monkey (Aotus spp.) in captivity.
Journal of medical primatology - 1 Jun 1997
Málaga C A, Weller R E, Buschbom R L, Baer J F, Kimsey B B
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The reproduction performance of captive owl monkeys, a breed used extensively in biomedical research, was observed at the Battelle Primate Facility (BPF). The colony grew through captive breeding, imports from the Peruvian Primatological Project, and others to a peak size of 730. It included seven karyotypes of Aotus sp. Results showed that owl monkeys can breed successfully in a laboratory in numbers sufficient...
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