ADAPTATION OF LABORATORY REARED MONKEYS TO FIELD ENVIRONMENTS

实验室饲养的猴子对野外环境的适应

• 批准号: 3756696
• 负责人: S J SUOMI
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3756696
• 关键词: Cebidae; Macaca mulatta; animal communication behavior; animal developmental psychology; environmental adaptation; ethology; longitudinal animal study; telemetry; videotape /videodisc

This project investigates how rhesus monkeys and other nonhuman primate species born and raised under different laboratory conditions adapt to placement into naturalistic outdoor environments that contain specific physical and social features of the monkeys' natural habitat. Adaptation is assessed by examining behavioral repertoires and by monitoring a variety of physiological systems in these subjects, yielding broad-based indices of relative physical and psychological well-being. The responses of subjects to experimental manipulations of selected features of their respective environments are also assessed in similar fashion. During FY94 construction of a new addition to the shelter facility for the LCE's 5-acre outdoor enclosure at the NIHAC was begun, curtailing some of the ongoing research with the resident rhesus monkey troop. However, data collection for a series of studies investigating spacial memory capabilities regarding the location of familiar and novel objects within the 5-acre enclosure was completed, and the effects of the physical and social disruption produced by the construction on ongoing troop behavior and habitat usage was documented. Lifespan longitudinal behavioral profiles exhibited by a comparison group of rhesus monkeys maintained from birth in indoor housing demonstrated remarkable stability of both individual and gender-specific profiles from early adulthood to senescence, despite significant developmental changes in certain behaviors as a function of increasing age. Extensive studies investigating tool-using behavior in capuchin monkeys greatly expanded the known range and complexity of tool-using tasks that the species is capable of mastering, including certain tasks previously thought to be limited to humans and their direct hominid ancestors. Another set of studies employed video game technology to demonstrate impressive cognitive capabilities involving elements of self-recognition in capuchin monkeys qualitatively similar to those of chimpanzees and humans. Data from several field studies investigating the relationship between group social structure and context and acoustical features of vocalizations in 3 species of New World primates were published this past year. Finally, major methodological advances were achieved in the editing and analysis of psychophysiological data collected via telemetry from free-ranging monkeys, as well as in the development of sophisticated growth curve modelling techniques for analyzing small-n longitudinal data sets.

该项目研究恒河猴和其他非人类灵长类动物如何 在不同实验室条件下出生和长大的物种适应 放置在包含特定内容的自然户外环境中 猴子自然栖息地的物理和社会特征。 适应 通过检查行为库和监控来评估 这些学科的各种生理系统，产生了广泛的基础 相对身体和心理健康的指数。 回应 对受试者的选定特征进行实验操作 也以类似的方式评估各自的环境。 期间 94 财年为 LCE 建造新的避难所设施 NIHAC 开始建造 5 英亩的室外围栏，减少了一些 正在进行与常驻恒河猴群体的研究。 然而，数据 一系列调查空间记忆的研究的集合 有关熟悉和新奇物体位置的能力 5英亩的围场竣工，物理和物理的影响 持续的部队行为造成的社会混乱 并记录栖息地的使用情况。 寿命纵向行为 对照组恒河猴所表现出的特征 从出生起就在室内住房中表现出显着的稳定性 从成年早期到 衰老，尽管某些方面发生了显着的发育变化 行为随着年龄的增长而变化。 广泛的研究 卷尾猴工具使用行为的调查范围大大扩大 该物种已知的使用工具任务的范围和复杂性 有能力掌握，包括以前认为是的某些任务 仅限于人类及其直系原始祖先。 另一组 研究采用视频游戏技术来展示令人印象深刻的 卷尾猴的认知能力涉及自我识别的要素 猴子在性质上与黑猩猩和人类相似。 数据 来自调查群体之间关系的多项实地研究 社会结构和语境以及发声的声学特征 去年，有 3 种新世界灵长类动物被公布。 最后， 在编辑和分析方面取得了重大方法进展 通过遥测从自由放养收集的心理生理数据 猴子，以及复杂的生长曲线的发展 用于分析小 n 纵向数据集的建模技术。