SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF A TROOP OF JAPANESE MONKEYS IN A 2-ACRE ENCLOSURE
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF A TROOP OF JAPANESE MONKEYS IN A 2-ACRE ENCLOSURE
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DOI:
10.1159/000155202
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发表时间:
1969-01-01
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
BOWERS, JM
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作者:
ALEXANDER, BK;BOWERS, JM
In the spring of 1965, the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center acquired a troop of monkeys (Macaca fuscata fuscata) captured in the Hiroshima prefecture of Japan. An intact troop is a unique re source since most laboratory research on social organization is con ducted on animals individually trapped and assembled into groups by dealers (Kummer [1967]). These artificially assembled groups lack the kinship ties and social habits which have been found to structure the social relationships of intact troops (Kawai [1965]; Kawamura [1965]).The Oregon troop is presently housed in a two-acre outdoor cor ral designed to be large enough for the maintenance of natural troop organization but small enough to permit intensive study. The interior of the corral is a grass field containing numerous stumps and bare tree trunks which provide climbing platforms, and a wooden tower for shelter (Fig. 1).