Collaboration in Evaluation and Management of Primates

Copyright: © 2013 Rothschild B. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Collaborations are typically initiated when one of the parties recognizes that they either lack the skills or the experience to address a challenge in explaining and managing an aspect of primate behavior or health. It also requires identification of the appropriate partner who is knowledgeable and experienced in a field at least tangential to the problem. Tangential infers that the partner has experience/knowledge with and of the behavior/health issue, but not necessarily in the same species or that they have problem solving skills, documented across phylogenetic lines. This is not to say that such experience/education cannot be pursued in isolation without collaboration, but that approach is very time expensive, no longer even required for those in pursuit of advanced academic degrees and subject to semantic limitations [1]. Human and veterinary medicine have a shared vocabulary, often quite disparate in meaning, and this statement is no less true across other fields of endeavor.