Long-term experiments with a newly-developed standardized diet for the New World primates Callithrix jacchus jacchus and Callithrix jacchus penicillata (marmosets)

Abstract

A long-term feeding study lasting more than 4 years is described during which a newly-developed complete diet for marmosets was evaluated. Using this diet, it was possible to adapt the feeding habits and dietary requirements of these increasingly popular South American non-human primates to standardized laboratory conditions.