Question 1: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for mice that weigh < 10 grams?
Answer: 6 sq in

Question 2: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for mice that weigh up to 15 grams?
Answer: 8 sq in 

Question 3: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for mice that weigh up to 25 grams?
Answer: 12 sq in 

Question 4: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for mice that weigh > 25 grams?
Answer: 15 or more square in

Question 5: What minimum interior height, in inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for mice?
Answer: 5 sq in 

Question 6: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rats that weigh < 100 grams?
Answer: 17 sq in 

Question 7: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rats that weigh up to 200 grams?
Answer: 23 sq in 

Question 8: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rats that weigh up to 300 grams?
Answer: 29 sq in 

Question 9: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rats that weigh up to 400 grams?
Answer: 40 sq in 

Question 10: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rats that weigh up to 500 grams?
Answer: 60 sq in 

Question 11: What minimum floor space, in square inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rats that weigh > 500 grams?
Answer: 70 or more square in

Question 12: What minimum interior height, in inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rats?
Answer: 7, in

Question 13: What minimum floor space, in inches, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for hamsters that weigh < 60 grams?
Answer: 10 sq in 

Question 14: What minimum floor space, in inches, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for hamsters that weigh 60 to 80 grams?
Answer: 13 sq in 

Question 15: What minimum floor space, in inches, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for hamsters that weigh 80 to 100 grams?
Answer: 16 sq in 

Question 16: What minimum floor space, in inches, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for hamsters that weigh > 100 grams?
Answer: 19 sq in 

Question 17: What minimum interior height, in inches, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for hamsters?
Answer: the GUIDE recommends 6 in; the Animal Welfare Act does not designate height requirements for hamsters

Question 18: What minimum floor space, in inches, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for Guinea pigs that weigh < 350 grams?
Answer: 60 sq in 

Question 19: What minimum floor space, in inches, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for Guinea pigs that weigh > 350 grams?
Answer: 101 sq in 

Question 20: What minimum floor space, in inches, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for nursing female Guinea pigs with litters?
Answer: the Animal Welfare Act recommends 101 sq in, the same area recommended for Guinea pigs that weigh > 350 grams; in contrast, the GUIDE does not designate different floor area requirements for nursing female Guinea pigs with litters

Question 21: What minimum interior height, in inches, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for Guinea pigs?
Answer: the GUIDE recommends 7 in; the Animal Welfare Act does not designate height requirements for Guinea pigs

Question 22: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rabbits that weigh < 2 kilograms?
Answer: 1.5 sq ft

Question 23: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rabbits that weigh 2 to 4 kilograms?
Answer: 3.0 sq ft

Question 24: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rabbits that weigh 4 to 5.4 kilograms?
Answer: 4.0 sq ft

Question 25:  What minimum floor area, in square feet, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for rabbits that weigh > 5.4 kilograms?
Answer: 5.0 sq ft

Question 26: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for female rabbits that weigh < 2 kilograms when housed with a litter?
Answer: the Animal Welfare Act requires 4 sq ft; in contrast, the GUIDE does not make different floor area recommendations for nursing female rabbits with litters

Question 27: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for female rabbits that weigh 2 to 4 kilograms when housed with a litter?
Answer: the Animal Welfare Act requires 5 sq ft; in contrast, the GUIDE does not make different floor area recommendations for nursing female rabbits with litters

Question 28: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for female rabbits that weigh 4 to 5.4 kilograms when housed with a litter?
Answer: the Animal Welfare Act requires 6 sq ft; in contrast, the GUIDE does not make different floor area recommendations for nursing female rabbits with litters

Question 29:  What minimum floor area, in square feet, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for female rabbits that weigh > 5.4 kilograms when housed with a litter?
Answer: the Animal Welfare Act requires 7.5 sq ft; in contrast, the GUIDE does not make different floor area recommendations for nursing female rabbits with litters

Question 30:  What minimum interior height, in inches, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for weaned rabbits of any size?
Answer: 14, in

Question 31:  What minimum floor area, in square feet, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for cats that weigh 4 kilograms or less?
Answer: 3.0 sq ft

Question 32:  What minimum floor area, in square feet, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for cats that weigh > 4 kilograms?
Answer: 4.0 sq ft

Question 33: What minimum interior height, in inches, do both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for cats of any size?
Answer: 24, in

Question 34:  What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Animal Welfare Act recommend for dogs?
Answer: the minimum floor area is calculated based on the length of the dog; take the length of the dog -in in- from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail, add 6 in, square that sum, then divide the product by 144 to determine the square footage required

Question 35: What minimum interior height, in inches, does the Animal Welfare Act recommend for dogs of any size?
Answer: 6 in above the standing head height of the tallest dog

Question 36:  What minimum floor space does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for dogs that weigh < 15 kilograms?
Answer: 8.0 sq ft

Question 37:  What minimum floor space does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for dogs that weigh 15 to 30 kilograms?
Answer: 12.0 sq ft

Question 38:  What minimum floor space does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for dogs that weigh > 30 kilograms?
Answer: at least 24.0 sq ft, although larger animals may require an area calculated based on the length of the dog in order to be in compliance with the requirements of the Animal Welfare Act

Question 39:  What interior height, in inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for dogs?
Answer: the GUIDE does not list specific interior height recommendations for dogs; it instead references the Animal Welfare Act requirement that the height must be sufficient to allow cage occupants to stand in a "comfortable position"

Question 40: How many separate nonhuman primate groups do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals designate?
Answer: the Animal Welfare Act designates 6 groups total, with apes in group 6; the GUIDE designates 7 monkey groups and 3 ape groups, for a total of 10 nonhuman primate groups

Question 41: What weight criteria does the Animal Welfare Act designate for group 1 through 6 nonhuman primates?
Answer: group 1 primates weigh < 1 kilogram; group 2 primates weigh 1 to 3 kilograms; group 3 primates weigh 3 to 10 kilograms; group 4 primates weigh 10 to 15 kilograms; group 5 primates weigh 15 to 25 kilograms; group 6 primates weigh > 25 kilograms

Question 42: what weight criteria does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals designate for group 1 through 7 monkeys?
Answer: group 1 monkeys weigh up to 1 kilogram; group 2 monkeys weigh up to 3 kilograms; group 3 monkeys weigh up to 10 kilograms; group 4 monkeys weigh up to 15 kilograms; group 5 monkeys weigh up to 25 kilograms; group 6 monkeys weigh up to 30 kilograms; group 7 monkeys weigh > 30 kilograms

Question 43: Using Animal Welfare Act group designations, can you name 3 examples of Group 1 nonhuman primates?
Answer: marmosets, tamarins, and infants of various species that are < 6 months of age 

Question 44: Using Animal Welfare Act group designations, can you name 3 examples of Group 2 nonhuman primates?
Answer: capuchins, squirrel monkeys and similar size species, and juveniles of various species that are 6 months to 3 years of age

Question 45: Using Animal Welfare Act group designations, can you name 2 examples of Group 3 nonhuman primates?
Answer: macaques, and African species

Question 46: Using Animal Welfare Act group designations, can you name 2 examples of Group 4 nonhuman primates?
Answer: male macaques, and large African species

Question 47: Using Animal Welfare Act group designations, can you name 2 examples of Group 5 nonhuman primates?
Answer: baboons, and nonbrachiating species > 15 kilograms

Question 48: Using Animal Welfare Act group designations, can you name 2 examples of Group 6 nonhuman primates?
Answer: great apes that weigh > 25 kilograms, and brachiating species

Question 49: According to the groups designated within the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals which primates are included in monkey Groups 1 through 7?
Answer: families Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Cercopithecidae, along with the genus Papio
Question 50: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 1 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 1.6 sq ft

Question 51: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 2 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 3.0 sq ft

Question 52: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 3 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 4.3 sq ft

Question 53: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 4 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 6.0 sq ft

Question 54: What minimum floor area, in square feet, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 5 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 8.0 sq ft

Question 55: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 6 monkeys?
Answer: 10.0 sq ft

Question 56: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 7 monkeys?
Answer: 15.0 sq ft

Question 57: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Animal Welfare Act recommend for group 6 primates?
Answer: 25.1 sq ft

Question 58: What minimum interior height, in inches, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 1 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 20 in

Question 59: What minimum interior height, in inches, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 2 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 30 in

Question 60: What minimum interior height, in inches, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 3 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 30 in

Question 61: What minimum interior height, in inches, do the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 4 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 32 in

Question 62: What minimum interior height, in inches, do the Animal Welfare Act, and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 5 primates or monkeys?
Answer: 36 in

Question 63: What minimum interior height, in inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 6 monkeys?
Answer: 46 in

Question 64: What minimum interior height, in inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 7 monkeys?
Answer: 46 in

Question 65: What minimum interior height, in inches, does the Animal Welfare Act recommend for group 6 primates, which includes apes?
Answer: 84 in

Question 66: what weight criteria does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals designate for group 1 through 3 apes?
Answer: group 1 apes weigh up to 20 kilograms; group 2 apes weigh up to 35 kilograms; group 3 apes weigh > 35 kilograms

Question 67: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 1 apes?
Answer: 10.0 sq ft

Question 68: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 2 apes?
Answer: 15.0 sq ft

Question 69: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 3 apes?
Answer: 25.0 sq ft

Question 70: What minimum interior height, in inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 1 apes?
Answer: 55 in

Question 71: What minimum interior height, in inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 2 apes?
Answer: 60 in

Question 72: What minimum interior height, in inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for group 3 apes?
Answer: 84 in

Question 73:  which 5 brachiating genera does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals cite as examples of nonhuman primates that need a cage height that will allow them to swing from the cage ceiling without their feet touching the floor when fully extended?
Answer: the genus Brachyteles, which are the woolly spider monkeys; the genus Hylobates, which are the gibbons; then genus Symphalangus, which are the Siamang; the genus Pongo, which are the orangutans; and the genus Pan, which are the chimpanzees

Question 74: According to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, what specific cage-ceiling design feature is required for enclosures that house brachiating nonhuman primates?
Answer: design should enhance brachiating movement

Question 75: According to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, what housing recommendation is made to more effectively house apes weighing > 50 kilograms?
Answer: permanent housing of masonry, concrete, and wire-panel structure, rather than conventional caging

Question 76: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed pigeons?
Answer: 0.8 sq ft per bird

Question 77: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed quail?
Answer: 0.25 sq ft per bird

Question 78: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed chickens weighing < 0.25 kilograms?
Answer: 0.25 sq ft per bird

Question 79: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed chickens weighing up to 0.5 kilograms?
Answer: 0.5 sq ft per bird

Question 80: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed chickens weighing up to 1.5 kilograms?
Answer: 1.0 sq ft per bird

Question 81: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed chickens weighing up to 3.0 kilograms?
Answer: 2.0 sq ft per bird

Question 82: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed chickens weighing > 3.0 kilograms?
Answer: > 3.0 sq ft per bird

Question 83: What minimum interior cage height, in inches, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for pigeons, quail, and chickens?
Answer: the GUIDE does not designate height recommendations for pigeons, quail, or chickens

Question 84: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed sheep or goats weighing up to 25 kilograms?
Answer: 10.0 sq ft per animal

Question 85: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed sheep or goats weighing up to 50 kilograms?
Answer: 15.0 sq ft per animal

Question 86: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed sheep or goats weighing > 50 kilograms?
Answer: 20.0 sq ft per animal

Question 87: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed swine weighing up to 25 kilograms?
Answer: 12.0 sq ft per animal

Question 88: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed swine weighing up to 50 kilograms?
Answer: 15.0 sq ft per animal

Question 89: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed swine weighing up to 100 kilograms?
Answer: 24.0 sq ft per animal

Question 90: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed swine weighing up to 200 kilograms?
Answer: 48.0 sq ft per animal

Question 91: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed swine weighing > 200 kilograms?
Answer: > 60.0 sq ft per animal

Question 92: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed cattle weighing < 75 kilograms?
Answer: 24.0 sq ft per animal

Question 93: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed cattle weighing up to 200 kilograms?
Answer: 48.0 sq ft per animal

Question 94: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed cattle weighing up to 350 kilograms?
Answer: 72.0 sq ft per animal

Question 95: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed cattle weighing up to 500 kilograms?
Answer: 96.0 sq ft per animal

Question 96: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed cattle weighing up to 650 kilograms?
Answer: 124.0 sq ft per animal

Question 97: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individually-housed cattle weighing > 650 kilograms?
Answer: 144.0 sq ft per animal

Question 98: What minimum floor area, in square feet, does the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals recommend for individual ponies and horses?
Answer: 72.0 sq ft per pony, 144.0 sq ft per horse
