Do "birds of a feather flock together" or do "opposites attract"? Behavioral responses and temperament predict success in pairings of rhesus monkeys in a laboratory setting.
Do "birds of a feather flock together" or do "opposites attract"? Behavioral responses and temperament predict success in pairings of rhesus monkeys in a laboratory setting.
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10.1002/ajp.22464
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发表时间：
2017-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
McCowan BJ
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作者：
Capitanio JP;Blozis SA;Snarr J;Steward A;McCowan BJ
越来越多的人认识到，必须解决圈养灵长类动物的社会需求，这可能会给负责实施动物配对住房解决方案的灵长类动物设施的工作人员带来挑战。不幸的是，很少有已发表的论文确定可能促进社会配对过程的个人特征，而那些研究配对前行为测量的论文产生了混合的结果。使用一个数据库n=340同性配对尝试，我们报告说，措施与标准化的婴儿评估协议（生物行为评估程序）的反应预测成功配对尝试发生几年后。在3-4月龄时，从恒河猴中获得了对短暂分离和搬迁、对人类入侵者挑战的行为反应以及气质评级。当动物在行为评估后配对长达10年时，使用逻辑回归来确定成功的潜在预测因素。在女性中，当一对成员更相似时（即，较小的差异分数）的模式的情绪反应（情绪，神经质）在婴儿评估。相比之下，在男性中，成功率较高时，一对有较低的平均值温柔和紧张的气质分数;当成员年轻;当对有较大的体重差异;当他们来自相同的养育背景。总之，我们的研究结果表明，广泛的措施，反映模式的情绪，在应对挑战，这可以在婴儿期进行评估（但保持相对稳定的整个生命），可以有效地利用，以增加成功的配对尝试的可能性。
The growing recognition that social needs of primates in captivity must be addressed can present challenges to staff at primate facilities charged with implementing pair-housing solutions for animals. Unfortunately, there are few published papers that identify individual characteristics that might facilitate the social pairing process, and those that have looked at pre-pairing measures of behavior have produced mixed results. Using a database of n=340 isosexual pairing attempts, we report that measures associated with responses to a standardized infant assessment protocol (the BioBehavioral Assessment program) predict success in pairing attempts that occurred years later. Behavioral responses to a brief separation and relocation, to a human intruder challenge, as well as ratings of temperament, were obtained from rhesus monkeys at 3–4 months of age. Logistic regression was used to identify potential predictors of success when animals were paired up to 10 years after the behavioral assessments. Among females, success was higher when members of a pair were more similar (i.e., a smaller difference scores) in patterns of emotional responding (emotionality, nervous temperament) during the infant assessments. In contrast, among males, success was higher when the pair had lower mean values for Gentle and Nervous temperament scores; when the members were younger; when pairs had a greater weight difference; and when they came from the same rearing background. Together, our results suggest that broad measures reflecting patterns of emotionality in response to challenge, which can be assessed in infancy (but which remain relatively stable throughout life) can be usefully employed to increase the likelihood of success in pairing attempts.