REPRODUCTIVE AND NEONATAL OUTCOMES IN CAPTIVE BRED BABOONS (PAPIO-HAMADRYAS)

Baboons are widely used in biomedical research. Although it is widely held that Papio hamadryas breed well in captivity, each established co lony has a different reproductive success often hypothesised to be due to husbandry practices. The National Baboon Colony in Australia is a unique colony that houses Papio hamadryas to mimic that structure seen in the wild. In this article; we have analysed their reproductive par ameters and neonatal outcomes. The success of the colony husbandry pra ctices was demonstrated by lack of maternal mortality, low foetal morb idity, and known maternal and paternal linage.