Chitika


Support Primates adaptation in captivity
An alternative for their conservation with the challenges of climate change (nutritional approach)
The primates represent themselves more than 200 species, most of them are endangered by the destruction of their habitat. The captive primates don’t have the opportunity to find and chose by themselves their food. Of course, in the wild animals spent a great part of their time to look for food. That is why it is recommended, in captivity, to increase the time for manipulation, increase the fourragement, or make available the puzzle feeders or power other devices (International Primatology Society, 2007). Looking for food is the center of all primates’ organization. They are obliged to live in group, to look for and protect their space. To ensure a transition keeping of primates endangered for a probable return in the forest, we must be able to provide them some habits that can keep them in touch with the life they've lost, we think that the variety of food presentation and a feeding program helping animals to spend more time to prepare and eat food can give them the opportunity to reintegrate more easily the wild life and then to survive by themselves.