PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN PAIRED ADULT FEMALE RHESUS (MACACA-MULATTA)
PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN PAIRED ADULT FEMALE RHESUS (MACACA-MULATTA)
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DOI：
10.1002/ajp.1350330204
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发表时间：
1994-01-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
SHIIGI, SM
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作者：
EATON, GG;KELLEY, ST;SHIIGI, SM
我们评估了社交生活（配对）对改善实验室条件下饲养的成年雌性恒河猴（Macaca mulatta）心理健康的影响。我们通过多种健康指标（血液学、临床发病率和体重）、压力（免疫反应）、行为（对社会接近的偏好、物种典型亲和行为的表现和异常行为的发生率）和生殖（排卵频率、受孕率和婴儿存活率）来测量12对和12只单独圈养的雌性动物的幸福感。我们选择了一直生活在单一单位笼子里的成年雌性，并将它们配对在更大的笼子里。注意让女性变得熟悉;在配对发生之前彼此熟悉，并且在发生严重伤害之前将战斗的对分开。单独饲养的对照雌性动物也配对1周，然后分开，以平衡预期在初始配对期间发生的应激效应，并确保它们在社会生活能力方面与实验动物等同。我们的结论是，配对的成年雌性恒河猴是一个积极的经验，占主导地位的和从属成员的对。他们选择把大部分时间花在友好的社会交往上，更活跃，比单独居住的对照组更少咬指甲。各组之间在生殖、临床发病率或免疫应激反应方面没有差异。然而，单靠配对可能不足以确保实验室饲养的恒河猴的健康，因为异常行为（如刻板动作）的发生率仍然很高。(C)1994 Wiley-Liss，Inc.
We assessed the effects of social living (pairing) on improving the psychological well-being of adult female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) housed under laboratory conditions. We measured well-being in 12 pairs and 12 singly housed females through multiple indices of health (hematology, clinical morbidity, and body weight), stress (immune responses), behavior (preferences for social proximity, exhibition of species typical affiliative behavior, and rates of abnormal behavior), and reproduction (frequency of ovulation, rates of conception, and infant survival). We selected adult females that had been living in single-unit cages and paired them in larger cages. Care was taken to allow females to become familiar ;with one another before pairing took place, and pairs that fought were separated before serious injuries occurred. Singly-housed control females were also paired for 1 week and then separated to balance the stressful effects expected to occur during the initial pairing and to assure that they were equivalent to the experimental animals in their ability to live socially. We concluded that pairing adult female rhesus monkeys was a positive experience for both the dominant and subordinate members of the pairs. They chose to spend the majority of their time involved in amicable social interactions, were more active, and they indulged in less nail biting than singly-housed controls. There were no differences in reproduction, rates of clinical morbidity, or immune stress responses among the groups. However, pairing alone may not be sufficient to assure the well-being of laboratory-housed rhesus macaques, because rates of abnormal behaviors such as stereotyped movements remained high. (C) 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.