What is the best type of outdoor enclosure for monkeys?
Most of our enclosures are 1⁄8 acre to one acre corrals. We are gradually subdividing many of our largest, open-top corrals into 1⁄8 acre corrals with mesh ceilings. This design has several advantages. Since our primates love to climb, a ceiling provides more usable space. In the 1⁄8 and 1⁄4 acre corrals, we are better able to see animals and monitor their health and social relationships, and to identify individual animals. Group sizes are large enough to provide species-appropriate, stimulating social lives. Some of our primates are housed in runs and corn cribs with smaller social groups. Many of these are young animals that will be combined into larger social groups as they mature.
