Restraining device for small monkeys

Small monkeys such as marmosets, tamarins, talapoins and squirrel monkeys have many advantages as laboratory primates for biomedical research, not least of which is their size. They are consequently easy to handle and can be kept in family groups, thereby avoiding the behavioural problems encountered in larger primates which have to be caged singly. Nevertheless, it still requires 2 people to handle even young marmosets for routine procedures such as blood sampling, vaginal lavage and uterine palpation, one to restrain the animal and