ABSTRACT

Driven by early space exploration, fabric jackets have been used with laboratory nonhuman primates (NHPs) since the 1950s. With the development and adoption of modern behavioral management practices, especially considerations related to acclimation to the jackets, they are no longer simply restraints, but are now protective garments that allow animals to rapidly return to normal physiological states following their application. Application of jackets for NHPs began to diversify during the 1990s, driven, in part, by the availability of ever smaller, but much more powerful, biologgers. The development of biologging systems for the collection and processing of physiological parameters goes back to early space exploration, and some equipment, like Holter monitors, go back as far as the late 1940s. The most recent applications for jackets are in areas related to video tracking technology. Video tracking, as one might expect, records animals' movements and events via a static camera.