General Information about the Course Series and EUPRIM-Net

• Course Series Poster
• Flyer I
• Flyer II
• EUPRIM-Net Flyer

Travel Information

• Bus map
• Schedule bus no.5
• Schedule bus no. 8
• Map
• List of hotels
• kmz-file to view waypoints in Google Earth

Kurs zur Allgemeinen Primatenbiologie für Tierpfleger und technisches Personal

Ivar Aune: Kommunikation und Öffentlichkeit
Eckhard W. Heymann: Vielfalt der Primaten
Deike Terruhn: Marmosetten und Makaken
Manfred Eberle: Grundlagen der Genetik unter haltungsrelevanten Aspekten
Uwe Schönmann: Primatenhaltung und die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen

Course Presentations and Handouts

Course PrimBio 01/02 (Course of Essentials):

• Christian Roos: Primate Diversity and Phylogenetics
• Karolina Westlund: General and Social Behaviour
• Kurt Hammerschmidt: Vocal and Visual Communication
• Eckhard Heymann: Olfactory communication
• Jörg Ganzhorn: Primate Feeding Ecology
  paper 1, paper 2, paper 3, paper 4, references
• Mike Power: Matabolism and Digestive Physiology part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
• Thomas Gillespie: Diseases and Parasites of Wild Primates part 1, part 2
• Franz-Josef Kaup: Primate Pahtology
• Michael Heistermann: Non-invasive Endocrine Assessment in Primatology: Methodologies and Application
• Julia Ostner: Primate Mating and Social Systems
• Polani Seshagiri: Physiology of Reproduction part 1, part 2
• Ronald Bontrop: Immunogenetics
• Chris Pryce: Stress and its Impact on Behaviour and Cognition
• Christian Schnell: Is housing stressful? Influences of Animal Technicians Working Style
• Hannah Buchanan-Smith: Key Issues in Environmental Enrichment - Satisfying Behavioural Needs

Course PrimBio 17/11:

• Peter Burfeind: Application of Genetics, Diagnostics
• Bernd Auber: About a new diagnostic method in mental retardation
• Cornelia Schubert: Medelian inheritance and the most common genetic diseases
• Silke Pauli: Genetic Code and mutation spectrum exemplified by the CHARGE syndrome
• Christian Roos: Molecular Phylogeny and Diversity of Primates
• Ronald Bontrop: Immunogenetics

Course PrimBio 13/10:

• Jaap Koolhaas: History and development of the stress concept
• Sietse de Boer: Physiology of the stress response
• Eberhard Fuchs: Neurobiology of the stress response
• Volker Stefanski: Stress response of the immune system
• Alessandro Bartolomucci: Individual variability and sex differences in the stress response
• Sietse de Boer: Temporal dynamics of the stress response
• Jaap Koolhaas: Adaptive versus maladaptive nature of the stress response and animal welfare
• Jaap Koolhaas: Coping with stress
• Martin Muller: Stress in the wild
• Verena Behringer: Stress of zoo housed apes; part1, part2
• Michael Heistermann: Non-invasive endocrine assessment of stress in primates: methodological aspects and validation
• Chris Pryce: Stress hormone receptors in the primate brain
• Chris Pryce: Stress and its impact on behaviour and cognition

Course PrimBio 16/04:

• E. Heymann: What are primates? Defining and distinguishing characters of the order Primates (pdf, 2.5MB)
• E. Heymann: Primate diversity: characteristics of the different primate radiations (pdf, 5MB)
• U. Jürgens: Morphology of primate brain (pdf, 900KB)
• D.Terruhn: Biology and natural history of the major laboratory primates (marmosets, tamarins) (pdf, 2MB)
• D. Terruhn: Biology and natural history of the major laboratory primates (macaques, vervet monkeys, squirrel monkeys) (pdf, 2.5MB)

Course PrimBio 24/10:

• T. Weingrill: Social Systems (pdf, 4.3MB)
• J. Setchell: Primate Mating Systems, 1st part, A (pdf, 4.5MB) and B (pdf, 3MB), Primate Mating Systems, 2nd part, A (pdf, 3MB) and B (pdf, 2MB)
• K. Hodges: Comparative aspects of reproduction in female primates (pdf, 1.3MB)
• P. Nayudu: Basic principles of gametogenesis, follicle development and early embryogenesis (pdf, 1.6MB)
• P. Nayudu: Female reproduction (pdf, 2.4MB)
• D. Zinner: Sexual Swellings in Female Primates: Facts and Hypotheses (pdf, 450KB)
• P. Nayudu: Implantation, placentation and post-implantation embryonic development (pdf, 1.2MB)
• G. Doxiadis: Genetics Population Management (pdf, 1MB)
• F.-J. Kaup: DPZ presentation (pdf, 800KB)

Course PrimBio 29/10:

• K. Westlund: General and Social Behaviour (pdf, 4.4MB)
• H. Buchanan-Smith: Behavioral Needs: 1st part (pdf, 500KB), 2nd part (pdf, 400KB), 3rd part (pdf, 800KB)
• H. Buchanan-Smith: Environmental Enrichment : 1st part (pdf, 500KB), 2nd part (pdf, 1.5MB), 3rd part (pdf, 300KB)
• H. Sigg: Ethics and Law (pdf, 100KB)
• J. Fischer: Vocal and Visual Communication, 1st part (pdf, 500KB), 2nd part (pdf, 500KB)
• E. W. Heymann: Olfactory Communication (pdf, 700KB)

Course PrimBio 26/11:

• T. Gillespie: Diseases and parasites of wild primates, 1st part (pdf, 4.4MB), 2nd part (pdf, 1.5MB)
  "Noninvasive Assessment of Gastrointestinal Parasite Infections in Free-Ranging Primates", International Journal of Primatology, 2006, 27( 4)
• M. Brack: Parasites of Non-human Primates (pdf, 400KB) - List of non human primate parasites
• G. Braskamp: Pain (pdf, 500KB)
• S. Rensing: Health problems for humans working with primates, part A (pdf, 400KB), part B (pdf, 400KB)
• F.-J. Kaup: Primate pathology (pdf, 3.6MB), Exercises with solutions (pdf, 3.8MB)
  "Health monitoring of non-human primate colonies - Recommendations of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA) Working Group on Non-Human Primate Health - FELASA Working Group on Non-Human Primate Health: H. Weber (Convenor), E. Berge, J. Finch, P. Heidt, F.-J. Kaup, G. Perretta, B. Verschuere & S. Wolfensohn, Laboratory Animals (1999) 33 (Suppl. 1), S1:3-S1:18"
• K. Westlund: Handling and training of primates for health examination and experimentation (pdf, 250KB) - Positive Reinforcement Training: Terminology list - PRT game

Course PrimBio 14/01:

• H. Buchanan-Smith: Environmental Enrichment for Captive Primates, 1st part (pdf, 1.2MB), 2nd part (pdf, 800KB), 3rd part (pdf, 900KB), 4th part (pdf, 1.3MB), 5th part (pdf, 5.5MB), 6th part (pdf, 300KB)
• K. Westlund: Handling and training (pdf, 250KB) - Positive Reinforcement Training: Terminology list
• M. Heistermann: Non-invasive Endocrine Assessment in Primatology: Methodologies and Application (pdf, 850KB)
• A. Gail: Telemetry in monkey neurophysiology - Remote monitoring of neuronal brain signals (pdf, 430KB)
• B. Schmelting: Blood Pressure determination in Cynomolgus Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) (pdf, 800KB)

Course PrimBio 04/02:

• J. Ganzhorn: Primate feeding ecology, part 1(pdf, 340KB), part 2 (pdf, 190KB), part 3 (pdf, 400KB), part 4 (pdf, 750KB), references (pdf, 100KB)
• C. M. Hladik: The Role of Taste and Smell in Primate Nutrition (pdf, 2.8MB)
• M. Power: Metabolism and digestive physiology, part 1 (pdf, 680KB) ,part 2 (pdf, 300KB), part 3 (pdf, 230KB)
• I. Badihi: Feeding Enrichment in Primates (pdf, 8.3MB)
• A. Vitale: The role of learning and imitation in primate food acquisition (pdf, 900KB)
• E.W. Heymann: Geophagy (pdf, 650KB)