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Breeding and colony management advice service

For answers to more specific questions about colony management or breeding difficult strains you can email our dedicated advice service.

Guidance

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Macaque website

A dedicated website with resources for everyone who works with, or is interested in, laboratory macaques.

Guidance

An automated behaviour monitoring tool for zebrafish

The Fish Behaviour Index (FBI) is an automated tool to monitor the behaviour of singly housed zebrafish.

Tool

Fish image taken by the Fish Behaviour Index

Double-decker rodent telemetry

The welfare benefits of double-decker rodent cages in allowing rats to engage in natural behaviours.

Guidance

Two white rats sit in a plastic IVC rat cage. Both are facing towards the camera. You can see a carboard tube (enrichment) towards the bottom right of the cage and a wire food hopper full of pellets in the middle back of the photo. There is an orange card pinned to the front where details of the animals can be recorded, the word moderate can be seen in caps stamped across the card.

Social housing aids recovery from stressors in zebrafish

Group housed zebrafish show lower levels of stress and anxiety when they undergo procedures than those who are housed singly.

Guidance

A row of plastic fish tanks holding zebrafish at a laboratory. The tanks are tall and narrow, and sit next to each other in numbered racks. The whole aquarium has a blue hue to it. You can see many zebrafish in each tank, socially housed.

Non-human primate accommodation, care and use guidelines

Guidelines on non-human primate accommodation, care and use adopted by the major UK bioscience funders.

Guidance | Hard copy

The front cover of the "Non-human primate accommodation, care and use guidelines" document on a green background.

Euthanasia

Key issues for the humane killing of laboratory animals.

Guidance

A laboratory technician and a rat in a tank

The importance of neonate assessment

It starts at the very beginning: Scientific and welfare reasons for reviewing neonate care

Guidance

A litter of black mice with an adult mouse, nesting in the corner of their home cage

Senses and communication: Non-human primate

Primate sensory capabilities and communication signals: implications for care and use in the laboratory

A rhesus macaque looks in a mirror hung outside its cage

Housing and husbandry: Non-human primate

Information to help refine the housing and husbandry of laboratory non-human primates.

Guidance

A large room housing a breeding group of rhesus macaques. In the background is a floor-to-ceiling height bay window, letting lots of natural light into the room. The floor is covered in a deep layer of wood shavings, with one monkey on the floor foraging for scattered food. Wooden ladders, platforms and shelves fill the walls and room space, some of which have monkeys resting on them. Suspended from the ceiling are swings made from wood and ropes, and from plastic barrels and firehoses.

Training animals

Guidance on implementing positive reinforcement training methods.

Guidance

Marmoset being handfed as part of positive reinforcement training