PFSMETE Program: Behavioral Husbandry and Research Program, Brookfield Zoo

PFSMETE 计划：行为畜牧和研究计划，布鲁克菲尔德动物园

• 批准号: 0003996
• 负责人: Susan Margulis
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Chicago Zoological Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-01-01 至 2001-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0003996&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFSMETE; Program; Behavioral; Husbandry; Research

The Behavioral Husbandry and Research Program (BHRP) at Brookfield Zoo is currently being redeveloping.The purpose of the BHRP is to incorporate behavioral observation, behavioral enrichment, and operant conditioning training into all aspects of captive management. This will require extensive training of staff and a more rigorous, systematic appproach to behavioral observation than has recently been required at the zoo. My responsibilities revolve primarliy around developing and maintaining a zoo-wide observational research program, with several goals: (1) Institute a zoo-wide program of routine behavioral monitoring of all animals in the zoo's collection; (2) Develop training and education programs for volunteers, staff and students to enable them to participate in, or initiate, research studies; (3) Initiate long-term research on the development of reproductive and parental behavior in captive animals, and the possible effects of physical and social environments on these life history traits. This proposal requests funding to initiate the primary components of the BHRP, including staff, student, and volunteer training, establishment of data collection and analysis protocols, and development of the technological infrastructure necessary to make the program a success.

布鲁克菲尔德动物园的行为饲养和研究项目（BHRP）目前正在重建中。BHRP的目的是将行为观察、行为丰富和操作性条件反射训练纳入圈养管理的各个方面。这将需要对工作人员进行广泛的培训，并采取比动物园最近所要求的更严格、更系统的行为观察方法。我的职责主要围绕开发和维护一个全动物园范围的观察研究项目，有几个目标：(1)建立一个全动物园范围的项目，对动物园所有动物的日常行为进行监测；(2)为志愿者、教职员工和学生制定培训和教育计划，使他们能够参与或发起研究；(3)开展圈养动物生殖和亲代行为发展的长期研究，以及物理和社会环境对这些生活史特征的可能影响。该提案要求为启动BHRP的主要组成部分提供资金，包括对工作人员、学生和志愿者的培训，建立数据收集和分析协议，以及开发使该项目取得成功所必需的技术基础设施。