International Research Fellow Awards: Intergroup Competition in Bonnet Macaques (Macaca Radiata)

9901439库珀国际研究员奖计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。 该计划的奖项为联合研究提供了机会，并利用国外独特或互补的设施，专业知识和实验条件。该奖项将为Matthew库珀博士与Mewa Singh博士在印度迈索尔大学进行为期12个月的博士后研究访问提供支持。该项目由美国提供支持-印度项目。库珀博士将研究群际竞争对软帽猕猴关系质量的影响。 具有高水平群间竞争的物种有望与群体成员建立有价值的关系。 该项目将研究群体间接触和关系质量之间的关联，以及其解释一系列攻击性和亲和性行为变化的能力。 在这项研究中，他将为一个关于该属冲突解决的比较数据库提供实地数据，他将量化相遇的水平，以便进行种间比较，并最终确定一个物种内社会关系的灵活性，以面对群间相遇的变化。辛格博士目前正在进行一项南印度灵长类动物的比较研究。 他在印度泰米尔纳德邦的英迪拉·甘地野生动物保护区维持着一个研究基地。他在这个保护区找到了32个引擎盖组。 除了与辛格博士和他的团队合作外，库珀博士还将与菲利普·奥雷利博士合作，奥雷利博士是为数不多的几位有研究野生森林猴子和解经验的科学家之一。 他隶属于佐治亚州亚特兰大的耶基斯地区灵长类动物中心，并将在利物浦大学生物人类学系工作。

9901439CooperThe International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will provide support for a twelve-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Matthew Cooper to work with Dr. Mewa Singh at the University of Mysore in India. Support for this project is provided by the U.S.-India Program.Dr. Cooper will study the effect of intergroup competition on relationship quality in bonnet macaques. Species with high levels of intergroup competition are expected to have valuable relationships with group members. The project will examine the association between intergroup encounters and relationship quality, and its ability to account for variation in an array of aggressive and affiliative behavior. During this study, he will provide field data to a comparative database on conflict resolution on this genus, he will quantify the level of encounters so that interspecific comparisons can be made, and finally to determine the flexibility of social relationships within a species in the face of variation in intergroup encounters.Dr. Singh is currently working on a comparative study of the primates of South India. He maintains a research site at the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu, India. He has located 32 bonnet groups on this reserve. In addition to working with Dr. Singh and his group, Dr. Cooper will collaborate with Dr. Filippo Aureli, one of the few scientists with experience studying reconciliation in a forest group of monkeys in the wild. He is affiliated with the Yerkes Regional Primate Center in Atlanta, GA, and will be at the University of Liverpool's Department of Biological Anthropology.***