Nonhuman Primates: Standards and Guidelines for the Breeding, Care, and Management of Laboratory Animals; a Report (1968) / Chapter Skim
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FACILITIES: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
FACILITIES: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
Pages 7-21
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This area should be provided with efficient restraining equipment and with facilities for sanitizing the area and equipment after each use. Quarantine and Conditioning Area This area is for housing newly arrived primates until they are in a good state of health and nutrition and suitable for research purposes.
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It should be separate from the postquarantine holding area. Other Areas Other areas that should be included in plans for a primate facility are: Offices Lunchroom Shop Surgical and postsurgical recovery rooms Diagnostic, necropsy, and research laboratories Special diet kitchen
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Interior bearing walls and partitions should be made of material that will prevent transfer of liquids between rooms. Satisfactory materials include masonry, tile brick, cement block, and poured cement.
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Fixtures, switches, and outlets should be installed so that rodents and insects cannot find shelter in them. Light fixtures in indoor gang cages and in chimpanzee rooms should be flush with the ceiling or placed above a wire cage ceiling.
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CAGES AND EQUIPMENT General Requirements CAGE DESIGN AND SIZE Cage design should augment the disease-control program. The bottom of a cage should be perforated or of woven wire with spaces large enough so that feces will fall through to the stainless steel dropping pans and troughs.
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Acceptable materials include fiber glass, plastic, stainless steel, stainless metal alloys, aluminum, or galvanized metals. Cages that are permanently installed in the building may be of ribbon slate, resin-coated compressed asbestos, tile, or poured concrete.
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Floors may be made of wire mesh or sheet metal and should be covered with peat moss, wood chips, or other nesting material. Recommended equipment includes vertical and horizontal climbing surfaces, a perching shelf, and, at floor level, two or more nest boxes, each with a small entrance.
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Cages for New World Monkeys Cages for New World monkeys should be constructed of wire mesh at the top and on at least two sides. This type of construction is desirable because it provides areas over which the animals can climb.
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. GANG CAGES Gang cages provide space at economical cost.
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Box 2296 San Antonio, Texas 78206 National Center for Primate Biology University of California Davis, California 95616 Oregon Regional Primate Research Center Beaverton, Oregon 97005 Laboratory of Perinatal Physiology National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness U.S. Public Health Service San Juan, Puerto Rico 00753 6571st Aeromedical Research Laboratory Aerospace Medical Division Air Force Systems Command Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico 88330 INDOOR-OUTDOOR ENCLOSURES If indoor-outdoor enclosures are used, at least 2 sq ft of floor space per adult animal should be provided in the shelter area and 2 to 4 sq ft per animal in the outside area.
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Cages for Baboons IN DIVIDUAL CAGES Individual cages for adult baboons should be made of aluminum, stainless steel, or galvanized iron. A cage suitable for holding one adult should have the following inside dimensions: width, 32 in.; depth, 36 in.; height, 47 in.
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(outside diameter) galvanized iron pipe arranged and supported to obtain maximum strength.
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Cages for adults should be constructed of impervious material such as poured concrete, tile, or terrazzo and should be of the indoor-outdoor type. The wall separating the indoor and outdoor sections should contain a guillotine door operated from the inside corridor only.
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Attendants should be able to see the animals and inspect the entire room without opening the main door. For example, the corridor side of the room may be constructed of 6-gauge woven wire and may include a guillotine door to which a transfer cage can be attached.
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Provisions should be made to attach the squeeze cage securely to the corridor door of the room. A guillotine door should be built into the corridor door for easy access to the squeeze cage.
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