Japan (JSPS) Postdoctoral Program: Social Behavior and Demography of the Japanese Macaques

该奖项将提供补充支持，使大卫博士 耶鲁大学的斯普拉格进行合作研究， 在日本京都大学与西田俊定博士合作一年。 他们 将调查日本人的社会行为和人口统计 屋久岛上的猕猴，为了阐明 交配跨越猕猴部队的边界，因此，社会 这个灵长类家族的基本结构 雌性开始与外来物种交配的过程 男性将被观察，以澄清女性选择的作用， 这些雄性的交配成功率以及 雌性选择交配对象 西田博士和他的同事们 发展了一个受人尊敬的行为研究学派， 他们对日本灵长类动物的经验，以及他们对 对灵长类动物行为的解释有些不同， 因此令西方灵长类动物学家耳目一新。 博士 斯普拉格以前曾与他的京都同事合作过， 经验将补充他在这方面积累的专门知识。 在过去的八年里，这个问题。

This award will provide supplementary support to enable Dr. David Sprague of Yale University to conduct collaborative research for one year with Dr. Toshisada Nishida at Kyoto University in Japan. They will investigate the social behavior and demography of Japanese Macaques on Yakushima Island, in order to illuminate the process of mating across the boundaries of macaque troops, and hence the social structure of this primate family generally. The processes by which females initiate mating consorts with alien males will be observed, in order to clarify the role of female choice in the mating success of these males and the criteria by which females choose mating partners. Dr. Nishida and his colleagues have developed a respected school of behavioral studies on the basis of their experience with Japanese primates, and their approaches to the explanation of primate behavior is somewhat different from, and therefore refreshing to, those of western primatologists. Dr. Sprague has worked with his Kyoto colleagues before and their experience will complement the expertise which he has developed on this subject over the past eight years.