EAPSI: Comparing Tibetan Macaque (Macaca Thibetana) Daytime and Nighttime Social Behaviors

EAPSI：比较西藏猕猴（Macaca Thibetana）白天和夜间的社交行为

• 批准号: 1713664
• 负责人: Kyle Runzel
• 金额: $ 0.54万
• 依托单位: Runzel Kyle
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1713664&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAPSI; Comparing; Tibetan; Macaque; Macaca

This project will examine and compare the daytime and nighttime social dynamics of a group of free-ranging, provisioned Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) at the Valley of the Wild Monkeys, Mt. Huangshan, Anhui, China. Ongoing research on these wild, but habituated (used to human presence), macaques has been conducted since 1986. The macaques' social behaviors will be observed and recorded at their nightly sleeping sites using camera traps and at their daily feeding sites using standard behavioral observation procedures. This research will be conducted in collaboration with Dr. Jin-Hua Li and Dr. Dongpo Xia of Anhui University who are experts on the Tibetan macaques at Mt. Huangshan. This project will help fill a substantial gap in the primatological literature: the vast majority focuses on daytime behaviors and neglects nighttime behaviors, which include half of a primate's lifespan. Understanding how daily cycles influence macaque social behavior may improve our understanding of our own social tendencies.Understanding nighttime behaviors of diurnal primates provide crucial information on the full spectrum of sociality and adaptations to group living. For the first time, this project will compare the day and nighttime social behaviors of a group of free-ranging, provisioned, Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) at the Valley of the Wild Monkeys, Mt. Huangshan, Anhui, China. Behavioral data will be collected using scan sampling at the daytime provisioning site and camera traps at the sleeping sites. After collection, a comparative analysis of social behaviors at the feeding and sleeping sites will provide a comprehensive depiction of this species social dynamics. Documenting behaviors at and around sleeping sites is essential for understanding the full behavioral repertoire of Tibetan macaques. This project will be the first to document the nighttime activity pattern of macaques and will influence how future studies consider primate sociality.This award, under the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program, supports summer research by a U.S. graduate student and is jointly funded by NSF and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.

这个项目将研究和比较白天和夜间的社会动态的一组自由放养，提供西藏猕猴（猕猴thibetana）在山谷的野生猴子，山。中国安徽黄山自1986年以来，一直在对这些野生但习惯（习惯于人类存在）的猕猴进行研究。将使用相机陷阱在其夜间睡眠部位观察并记录猕猴的社会行为，并使用标准行为观察程序在其日常进食部位观察并记录猕猴的社会行为。这项研究将与安徽大学的李金华博士和夏东坡博士合作进行，他们是研究喜马拉雅山藏猕猴的专家。黄山。这个项目将有助于填补灵长类动物学文献中的一个巨大空白：绝大多数人关注白天的行为，而忽视了夜间的行为，这包括灵长类动物寿命的一半。了解日常生活周期如何影响猕猴的社会行为，可能会提高我们对自身社会倾向的理解，而了解白天活动的灵长类动物的夜间行为，则可以提供有关社会性和群体生活适应的全方位信息。这是第一次，这个项目将比较白天和夜间的社会行为的一组自由放养，提供，西藏猕猴（猕猴thibetana）在山谷的野生猴子，山。中国安徽黄山将在日间供应部位使用扫描采样和在睡眠部位使用摄像机陷阱收集行为数据。收集后，在觅食和睡觉的网站的社会行为的比较分析将提供一个全面的描述这个物种的社会动态。记录睡眠地点及其周围的行为对于了解藏猕猴的全部行为至关重要。 该项目将是第一个记录猕猴夜间活动模式的项目，并将影响未来研究如何看待灵长类动物的社会性。该奖项是东亚和太平洋夏季研究所项目下的一个奖项，由美国国家科学基金会和中国科技部共同资助，支持一名美国研究生的夏季研究。