Synthetic studies on non-human primates in Borneo

婆罗洲非人类灵长类动物的综合研究

• 批准号: 08041147
• 负责人: TAKENAKA Osamu
• 金额: $ 1.79万
• 依托单位: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1996 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-08041147/
• 关键词: Primatology; Primate evolution; Kalimantan; Indonesia; Socioecology; Comparative Morphology; Chromosome; Molecular evolution

Many islands of various size comprise the tropical country, Indonesia. Among those islands, Kalimantan (Borneo) is three times of Honshu of Japan in size and the center of Sunda Land. It provides a living area for many non-human primates such as orangutan, gibbons, leaf-monkeys and macaques. The Asian team of Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University has been studying non-human primates in Southeast Asia since 1973. However, the field areas have been outside of this huge island. We though the filed work of 1996 was a preliminary study and included researchers of many scientific fields.The first sub-team is consisted by Takenaka, Mouri, Hirai and Suryobroto, and collected morphological date and blood samples from gibbons and macaques of wide areas. We visited Pangkaran Bun, Balikpapan and Banjarmasin. The samples were over 80 heads and are now under analyzes of morphological examination, karyotypes and the nucleotide sequences of the cytochrome b gene of mitochondrial DNA.The second sub-team, Matsumura tried find out suitable fields in east Kalimantan and found out 1) crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) are easily accessible but pig-tailed macaques (M.nemestrina) are hard to observe. In contrast, Leaf-monkeys, probosis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) and silver lutung (Trachypithecus cristatus) are not difficult to access in the forest near from rivers. The third sub-team, Fujita and Ueno examined the preference of macaques to the sense of taste and smell and found out some species difference in tolerance against bitterness and astringency. They also found a selective tool-use in macaques in different conditions. The fourth, Suzuki, continued observation of orangutan from the stand point of their sociality.Based on these preliminary results, we are making further plan for studying non-human primates in Kalimantan to compare with those of the other islands.

许多大小不一的岛屿组成了热带国家印度尼西亚。其中，加里曼丹（婆罗洲）面积是日本本州的三倍，是巽他地的中心。它为猩猩、长臂猿、叶猴和猕猴等许多非人类灵长类动物提供了生活场所。京都大学灵长类动物研究所的亚洲研究小组自1973年以来一直在研究东南亚的非人类灵长类动物。然而，田野区一直在这个巨大的岛屿之外。我们认为1996年的野外工作是一个初步的研究，包括许多科学领域的研究人员，第一个小组由竹中，平井和Suryobroto组成，收集了广泛地区的长臂猿和猕猴的形态数据和血液样本。我们参观了邦卡兰邦、巴厘巴板和班加马辛。样本数量超过80头，目前正在进行形态学检查、核型和线粒体DNA细胞色素B基因核苷酸序列分析。第二小组松村试图在东加里曼丹寻找合适的场地，发现1）食蟹猕猴（Macaca fascicularis）很容易接近，但猪尾猕猴（M.nemestrina）很难观察。相比之下，叶猴，长鼻猴（Nasalis larvatus）和银lutung（Trachypithecus cristatus）在森林附近的河流并不难获得。第三个小组，Fujita和Ueno研究了猕猴对味觉和嗅觉的偏好，并发现了一些物种对苦味和涩味的耐受性差异。他们还发现了猕猴在不同条件下对工具的选择性使用。第四位是铃木，他从猩猩的社会性角度继续观察猩猩。基于这些初步结果，我们正在制定进一步的计划，研究加里曼丹的非人类灵长类动物，以与其他岛屿的灵长类动物进行比较。