The baboon has been used extensively as an experimental model to study female reproductive function and pregnancy-related physiology. To obtain a better understanding of mammalian biology, there is a critical need to synthesize information from both the systems and the reductionist experimental approaches. There is a wide range of animal models from rodents to nonhuman primates in which this synthesis can provide important information. The study of each model is important in its own right. When any physiological system or stage of pregnancy is studied in a particular animal model, it is necessary for the investigator to evaluate the consequences of species differences. This need to assess the validity of any extrapolation across species is especially true in relation to the studies of female reproduction and the physiology of pregnancy.
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Nathanielsz, P.W. et al. (2009). Baboon Model for the Study of Nutritional Influences on Pregnancy. In: VandeBerg, J.L., Williams-Blangero, S., Tardif, S.D. (eds) The Baboon in Biomedical Research. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75991-3_12
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