Doctoral Dissertation Research: Contextual and physiological correlates of complex behavioral strategies in primates

博士论文研究：灵长类动物复杂行为策略的背景和生理相关性

• 批准号: 1847848
• 负责人: Ryne Palombit
• 金额: $ 2.46万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-15 至 2020-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1847848&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Contextual; physiological

Primates engage in a complex array of behavioral strategies during social interactions. This doctoral dissertation project will study the relative importance of friendly and aggressive behaviors and the broader contexts in which these behaviors occur during male-female interactions. The project will contribute to our understanding of the distribution of reproductive behaviors observed across the Primate Order. This project will contribute to the training of an undergraduate student in hormonal analysis techniques in the laboratory. The project will also contribute to conservation education programs and classroom connections between research site locations and the home institution. Olive baboons provide a unique opportunity to test several hypotheses addressing the expression of coercive versus "friendly" interactions with respect to mating. Because mating opportunities for males in this species are not strictly confined to the highest ranking individuals, both aggressive and friendly approaches occur, either by different males or even by the same males at different times, with different mates. However, the conditions influencing the relevant male and female mating decisions generating these patterns are currently unclear. Systematic behavioral and hormonal data will be collected from wild olive baboons to test whether two recognized aggressive tactics are effective male strategies in either the long-term or the short-term. Correspondingly, this research will evaluate whether males obtain mating opportunities through the contrasting strategy of friendly interaction to females, either as part of a long-term strategy of positive social affiliation or as a short-term tactic. This project also will record female injuries and non-invasively measure stress hormones to evaluate the physiological response and potential costs to females of male strategies. This primate system provides a useful model for testing general principles of how these ostensibly antithetical strategy sets interact co-evolutionarily.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

灵长类动物在社会交往中采取了一系列复杂的行为策略。这个博士论文项目将研究友好和攻击性行为的相对重要性，以及这些行为在男女互动中发生的更广泛的背景。该项目将有助于我们了解在灵长类动物中观察到的生殖行为分布。本项目将有助于培养一名本科生在实验室中的激素分析技术。该项目还将有助于保护教育计划和研究地点与家庭机构之间的课堂联系。橄榄狒狒提供了一个独特的机会来测试几个假设，解决在交配方面强制与“友好”互动的表达。因为在这个物种中，雄性的交配机会并不严格局限于排名最高的个体，所以攻击性和友好性都有可能发生，要么是不同的雄性，要么是同一只雄性在不同的时间和不同的伴侣。然而，影响产生这些模式的相关雄性和雌性交配决定的条件目前尚不清楚。系统地收集野生橄榄狒狒的行为和激素数据，以测试两种公认的攻击策略在长期或短期内是否有效。相应地，本研究将评估雄性是否通过与雌性友好互动的对比策略获得交配机会，无论是作为积极社会关系的长期策略的一部分，还是作为短期策略。该项目还将记录雌性损伤和非侵入性测量应激激素，以评估雄性策略对雌性的生理反应和潜在成本。这个灵长类系统为测试这些表面上对立的策略集如何共同进化相互作用的一般原理提供了一个有用的模型。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。