The 'Living Links to Human Evolution' Research Centre in Edinburgh Zoo: a new endeavour in collaboration
The 'Living Links to Human Evolution' Research Centre in Edinburgh Zoo: a new endeavour in collaboration
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10.1111/j.1748-1090.2010.00120.x
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2011-01-01
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Whiten, A.
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Macdonald, C.;Whiten, A.
爱丁堡动物园的“与人类进化的生命链接”研究中心是苏格兰皇家动物学会、圣安德鲁斯大学和苏格兰灵长类研究小组合作管理的科学机构，苏格兰灵长类研究小组代表圣安德鲁斯大学、斯特林大学、阿伯泰大学、阿伯丁大学和爱丁堡大学的灵长类动物学家联盟。该中心的创建是为了促进对自然饲养的猴子的行为、认知和福利方面的研究，同时以教育甚至娱乐的方式向参观动物园的公众介绍这些企业所体现的科学。这篇文章概述了这一合作的发展情况，详细介绍了中心的运作方式，并报告了其早期的成功。
The 'Living Links to Human Evolution' Research Centre in Edinburgh Zoo has been designed as a scientific institution managed in a collaboration between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, the University of St Andrews and the Scottish Primate Research Group, which represents a consortium of primatologists at the Universities of St Andrews, Stirling, Abertay, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. The Centre has been created to facilitate behavioural, cognitive and welfare-based research on naturalistically housed monkeys, at the same time introducing the zoo-visiting public to the science embodied in these enterprises, in an educational and even entertaining way. This article outlines the development of this collaboration, the details of how the Centre operates and reports on its early successes.