DEVELOPMENT OF GOLDEN LION TAMARIN FORAGING BEHAVIOR

金狮狨猴觅食行为的发育

• 批准号: 6538879
• 负责人: LISA G RAPAPORT
• 金额: $ 2.91万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-30 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6538879
• 关键词: Callithricidae; animal developmental psychology; animal food; behavioral /social science research tag; biological models; eating; field study; nutrition related tag; parent offspring interaction; preference; psychological models; social psychology; Callithricidae; animal developmental psychology; animal food; behavioral /social science research tag; biological models; eating; field study; nutrition related tag; parent offspring interaction; preference; psychological models; social psychology

Many of our attitudes about food and eating are developed during childhood. Thus, the health and nutritional condition of the child, and of the subsequent adult, are shaped by childhood feeding experiences. However, our understanding of how food preferences, eating habits and skills are learned is still very rudimentary. We do know that human infants rely, to a much greater extent than perhaps any other mammal, on social means to acquire food-related information. The marmosets and tamarins are unique among non-human primates in the degree to which family members provision weaned young, much as we humans provision our young. This study proposes to use the golden lion tamarin as a model for the study of the development of food selection and eating habits in humans. It will focus on the interplay between independent trial and error learning and social learning about food during the tamarins' first year of life. Field observations and collection for nutritional analysis of food types given to immature tamarins by older group members will be used to examine the functions of provisioning, to describe the various means by which young acquire food and how these food acquisition strategies change during ontogeny, and to describe the roles of caretakers in determining food intake by the young. Behavioral experiments designed to measure the effects of food familiarity on food transfer interactions will be conducted on captive family groups to further examine the functions of provisioning. Playback experiments of infant begging calls also will be conducted on groups in captivity in order to more clearly assess the costs of begging for food by the young. Thus, natural variation in the behavior of wild animals and controlled experimental variation will be used to test hypotheses regarding the development of food selection and foraging skills.

我们对食物和饮食的许多态度是在童年时期发展的。 因此，儿童和随后的成年人的健康和营养状况是由儿童喂养经历塑造的。 但是，我们对食物偏好，饮食习惯和技能的了解仍然非常基本。 我们确实知道，与其他哺乳动物相比，人类婴儿在社会手段上依赖于获取与食物相关的信息的程度。 在非人类灵长类动物中，果猴和田氨酸是独一无二的，在家庭成员提供的年轻人中，我们的年轻人提供了年轻人。 这项研究建议将金狮田氨酸蛋白酶作为研究人类食物选择和饮食习惯的发展的模型。 它将重点放在田纳兰人生命第一年期间独立试验与错误学习与社会学习之间的相互作用。 年长小组成员对未成熟的他da蛋白的食物类型的营养分析的现场观察和收集将用于检查配置的功能，描述Young获取食物的各种手段，以及这些食物获取策略在个体基础上如何改变，并描述年轻人确定看护者在确定食品摄入量的作用。 旨在衡量食物熟悉程度对食物转移相互作用的影响的行为实验将对圈养家庭组进行进一步研究。婴儿乞讨呼叫的播放实验还将在被囚禁的小组上进行，以便更清楚地评估年轻人乞讨食物的成本。 因此，将使用野生动物行为和受控的实验变异的自然变化来检验有关食物选择和觅食技能发展的假设。