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SNPRC is home to more than 3,200 nonhuman primates, including chimpanzees and a
variety of monkey species. By far the majority, though, are baboons. With
approximately 2,200 of these animals, SFBR has the world's largest colony of
baboons for biomedical research. Approximately 1,500 of these baboons are part
of a unique pedigreed colony, on which scientists have maintained complete
family, health and genetic histories for six generations. More than 900 of the
animals in the pedigreed colony have been genotyped, and that information has
been used by SFBR scientists to create a baboon genetic linkage map, the first
gene map of any nonhuman primate. Together, the pedigreed colony and the baboon
gene map give scientists an incredibly powerful research tool for finding the
genes that underlie natural susceptibility to or protection from a variety of
diseases.
To learn more about the primate species at SNPRC, click on the links below:
SNPRC has an extensive environmental enrichment program. The
goal of the program is to provide a better home for the monkeys and apes housed
in our facilities. We give them opportunities to express species-typical
behaviors that are found normally in primates living in the wild.
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