Rhesus Maternal Care in Relation to Population Growth, Awardin U.S. and Indian Currencies

与人口增长相关的恒河猴产妇护理，以美国和印度货币授予

• 批准号: 8719164
• 负责人: Rodney Johnson
• 金额: $ 1.71万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-03-01 至 1991-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8719164&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rhesus; Maternal; Care; Relation; Population

Description: This project supports Dr. Johnson for research work on rhesus monkeys, with an Indian scientist, Dr. (Mrs.) Iqbal Malik, Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi, India. They plan to study the maternal investment behavior and seek to identify the ecological and social factors, producing variability in the length and frequency of the infants' nursing bouts. Special attention will be paid to two factors; maternal time budgets and the availability of solid foods accessible to young infants. The current prediction is that mothers who allow infants to nurse more often or longer bouts delay the reproduction cycle and thus permit these youngsters to grow relatively older by the time they are weened. This is based on the assumption, known for human mothers, that their is a strong correlation between frequent nursing bouts of short duration and a prolonged lactational infertility. The research will be carried over two birth seasons by observing the rhesus monkeys within a natural free-ranging population in India. Scope: The two scientists have collaborated in the past on research in this field. The proposed work is timely and is likely to produce valuable results given the experience of the two collaborators in the field and their past record of publications. The research plan includes ecological and social influences on reproduction of primates and has important applications in wildlife management and in human reproductive behavior.

描述：该项目支持约翰逊博士与印度科学家约翰逊博士(史密斯)共同开展恒河猴研究工作。伊克巴尔·马利克，印度德里大学家政研究所。他们计划研究母亲的投资行为，并试图确定生态和社会因素，从而在婴儿哺乳的时间长度和频率方面产生差异。将特别注意两个因素：产妇的时间预算和幼儿可获得的固体食物。目前的预测是，允许婴儿更频繁或更长时间哺乳的母亲会推迟生殖周期，从而允许这些幼崽在断奶时变得相对较大。这是基于人类母亲所熟知的假设，即频繁的短时哺乳与长时间的哺乳期不孕之间存在很强的相关性。这项研究将在两个出生季节进行，通过观察印度自然自由放养种群中的恒河猴。范围：这两位科学家过去曾在这一领域进行过合作研究。鉴于两位合作者在该领域的经验及其过去的出版记录，拟议的工作是及时的，很可能产生有价值的结果。该研究计划包括对灵长类繁殖的生态和社会影响，并在野生动物管理和人类生殖行为中有重要应用。