Mortality causes of the moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax) in captivity
Gozalo A, Montoya E. Mortality causes of the moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax). J Med Primatol 1991:21:35-38.
From January 1987 to November 1990, 125 adult Saguinus mystax died at the CRCP. Enteritis/colitis (26%), hypoglycemia/cachexia (19%), and parasitic enteritis (13%) were the most common causes of death. Less common were purulent peritonitis (9%), lobular pneumonia (8%), and hemorrhagic gastroenterocolitis (6%). These results confirm the high frequency of gastroenteric lesions reported in Callitrichidae in captivity.
Alfonso Gozalo, Enrique Montoya
Center for Reproduction and Conservation of Nonhuman Primates, Instituto Veterinario de Investigaciones Tropicales y de Altura (IVITA), Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Iquitos, Peru
Key words: Saguinus mystax pathology wasting marmoset syndrome - colitis Alfonso Gozalo, Proyecto Peruano de Primatologia-IVITA, Apartado 621, Iquitos, Peru. Accepted for publication September 26, 1991.
Since 1978, the Center for Reproduction and Conservation of Nonhuman Primates (CRCP) at Iquitos, Peru, has been breeding in captivity Saguinus mystax in an effort to ensure their continued availability for biomedical research and to reduce depletion of wild populations. Production has been limited by spontaneous diseases such as the "wasting marmoset syndrome" and enteritis of various etiology [1,5,13,15].
This paper describes the causes of mortality in captivity.
