This Canopy issue is a special issue on the behaviour and care of primates within captive facilities, in zoos, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation centres, and the specific topics covered in this issue are:
- Public perception of conservation work carried out by zoos
- Interventions to alleviate behavioural pathologies in captive primates
- Tailored enrichment strategies and stereotypic behaviour in captive individually-housed macaques
- Breeding patterns in captive lemur species
- Play behaviours and personality in juvenile Bornean orangutans at an Indonesian rehabilitation centre
- Does the rearing history of common marmosets and black-eared marmosets affect behaviour within captive enclosures?
- Rescue-Enrich-Release: The environmental enrichment program for three species of captive primates at Colobus Conservation, Kenya
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