PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RHESUS MONKEY UNDER CAPTIVE CONDITION AT BANGLADESH NATIONAL ZOO

Abstract

The production and reproduction profile, feeds and feeding and troop management of Rhesus Monkey studied in captive condition at Bangladesh National Zoo in this experiment. For these purposes, 48 Rhesus monkey were parted with 2 troop and each troop contain 24 of monkey of 18 female and 6 male monkey were used during June 15 th to August 15 th , 2019 for a period of 3 month. Require amount of balance food that supplied to the Rhesus Monkey contain boiled egg, bread, banana, apple, papaya, pine apple, ground nut, cucumber and gram But we had made little change the food component for observing their health condition and breeding performance. We had replaced pine apple to mango and added Citrus food such as orange. From the study it was followed by Prevalence rate of cage(1) was 33.33% and Prevalence rate of cage(2) was 20.83%. The infection of virus not found, infection rate of bacteria was 4.16%, parasite was 12.5% and fungal was 14.58%. The average length of estrous cycle was 26.9 day for cage(1) and 29.8 day for cage(2) also include the average duration of gestation length was 157.10 days for cage(1) and 164.5 days for Cage(2). It is concluded and recommended that a balance ration used to be fed with proper management systems to keep unique health status along with productive and reproductive well-being of the Rhesus Monkey at Bangladesh National Zoo.