Growth and Development of Infant M. arctoides
Fed a Standardized Diet

Scheffler, Guenther; Gr, Kerr

doi:10.1159/000459829

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“…As is typically the case in humans (Guo et al, 1991), infant rhesus and stumptail macaques (Kerr et al, 1969;Scheffler and Kerr, 1975), cebus monkeys (Fleagle and Samonds, 1975), and chimpanzees (Gavan, 1953), rapid initial growth followed by gradual deceleration was apparent during the first year of life of the six study infants. The one exception was J.J., who maintained a high growth rate in all measures except head circumference, well beyond the time of decelerated growth in the other infants.…”

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Individual variation in the growth of captive infant gorillas

Bellisari

Newman

Greenberg

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American J Phys Anthropol

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Serial anthropometric data were obtained during the first year of life of six nursery-reared infant gorillas in the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo. Two of the infants are likely to be monozygotic twins as determined by DNA analysis. Growth curves were fitted to serial measures of cephalo-thoracic-abdominal length, arm length, leg length, head circumference, upper arm circumference, and weight from each gorilla, to describe individual patterns of variation in skeletal growth and body composition. Growth in skeletal measures tended to be curvilinear to varying degrees over the first year of life. Body composition varied more than skeletal measures throughout the first year as a consequence of individual health status. Individual growth and body composition variations appear to reflect both genetic and environmental influences in this small sample of captive infant gorillas.

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“…First-year growth patterns in weight and selected body measurements were studied by Kerr et al (1969) in M. mulatta, Scheffler and Kerr (1975) in M. arctoides, and Fleagle and Samonds (1975) in Cebus albifrons. These studies also aimed to establish normative data and confirmed the general primate infant growth pattern.…”

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Individual variation in the growth of captive infant gorillas

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Newman

Greenberg

et al. 2001

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Over the past seven years, weights of all nonhuman primates in the Primate Behavior Laboratory of Downstate Medical Center have been collected at the time of tuberculin testing twice per year. Other than reports QnMacaca mulatta (7,10), data on developmental weight gain in macaques, as yet, have been focused on major developmental periods such as infancy (2,3,8,9) and puberty (12,13). Our long-term collection of weights provides us with a large sample of laboratory-born animals with which to generate complete developmental weight curves under comparable conditions for two species of macaque, Macaca nemestrina and Macaca radiata.…”

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Weight Gain in Bonnet and Pigtail Macaques

Rosenblum¹,

Smiley²

1980

J Med Primatol

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Growth of nursery‐raised Macaca nemestrina infants: Effects of feeding schedules, sex, and birth weight

Sackett

Ruppenthal

1992

American J Primatol

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Ponderal growth, caloric intake, growth velocity, and growth efficiency were studied from birth through 90 days in 523 nursery-raised pigtailed macaque infants. The male and female subjects ranged in birth weight from the 1st through 100th centiles of the colony distribution and were all judged to be clinically healthy. One group of infants was fed on an ad lib schedule, with formula continuously available from dispensers which were replenished every 8 h. A second group was fed on a distributed regimen, with formula available on a 4-h-onlCh-off schedule. The latter schedule was instituted because of bacterial growth in the milk after 4 h. Infants fed the distributed diet had 20-25% lower caloric intake than those fed ad lib, but equaled or exceeded ad lib infants in body weight, growth velocity, and grams gained per 100 kilocalories (growth efficiency). The poorer utilization of calories by the ad lib group was attributed to a combination of bacteria in the milk, which caused diarrhea, and inability to metabolize the excess nutrients gained from overconsumption of fluids. The effects of the distributed diet occurred for both males and females, and across the full range of birth weights. Peak velocity and growth efficiency for both males and females occurred at 2 weeks after birth for high-birth-weight (HBW) infants and at 3 weeks for low-birth-weight (LBW) infants. However, the growth efficiency of LBW infants was equal to, or greater than, that of HBW infants after postnatal day 2. Descriptive statistics and regression equations based on this large sample are presented for quantitative comparisons of growth parameters with those of other primate species reared in laboratory or field settings. o 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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Growth and Development of Infant M. arctoides Fed a Standardized Diet

Cited by 8 publications

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Individual variation in the growth of captive infant gorillas

Individual variation in the growth of captive infant gorillas

Weight Gain in Bonnet and Pigtail Macaques

Growth of nursery‐raised Macaca nemestrina infants: Effects of feeding schedules, sex, and birth weight

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