树鼩的动物福利措施探讨

Discussion on welfare of tree shrews

树鼩在生物学特性、生理生化、新陈代谢和基因组等方面近似于人类,被广泛应用于生理学、病理学、病毒学、免疫学、药理学及遗传学等多个领域。迄今为止用于生物医学研究的树鼩大部分来自野生,实验树鼩尚无国家质量控制标准。为了保证树鼩引种、驯化、饲养、繁殖、质量控制及福利的规范化和科学化,提高树鼩繁殖率和成活率,本文从兽医公共卫生及实验动物科学的角度,对野生树鼩的捕捉、运输、检疫、饲养及繁育等方面的基本原则及技术操作和福利要求作一简述,为从事树鼩工作的有关人员及树鼩实验动物化研究提供参考。

Tree shrew is similar to human beings in many aspects such as biological characteristics, physiology and biochemistry, metabolism, genome, and etc. It has played an important role in many scientific research fields, such as physiology, pathology, virology, immunology, pharmacology, genetics and so forth. To this day most of wild tree shrews have been used in biomedical studies, yet there is no national quality control standard. In order to assure the standardization and scientific quality of tree shrew introduction, domestication, alimentation, reproduction, quality control, animal welfare, and increase the reproduction rate and survival rate of tree shrews, we will summarize in this paper some basic principles, technical operation and welfare requirements related to tree shrews according to the requirement of veterinary public health and laboratory animal sciences, including wild catching, transportation, quarantine, feeding, breeding and some other items, and provide some useful reference information for related workers and researches.