BEHAVIORAL AND VETERINARY APPROACHES TO PRIMATE BREEDING

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：本报告的目的 跨学科的项目是积累关于这种关系的信息 圈养灵长类动物的身心健康与他们的 社会住房条件。需要这些信息才能成功 管理现有的艾滋病动物模型群体，如黑猩猩 (泛轮齿猕猴)、恒河猴(猕猴)和辫子猕猴 (M.nomestrina)。在不同物种下收集的非人类灵长类动物数据 将以积累的唯一数据库为补充 在之前的研究中。标准化的行为协议和 计算机化数据库将提高国家育种能力 证明现有住房条件合理和/或提供 为未来设施的设计提供了经验依据。其中一个 设想的最终产品是行为数据收集的指南 技术，以及易于观察的行为模式的基本水平 作为一般健康信息。同时，提出了研究建议 是正在进行的开发一种新的理论模型的努力的一部分 环境对攻击行为的影响。现有的模式，即 将攻击性程度归因于拥挤，存在严重缺陷。非人 灵长类对攻击性和暴力有许多制衡，而且 似乎有效地应对和中和了与以下相关的社会紧张局势 通过绥靖和缔造和平来增加人口密度。研究 对黑猩猩的关注将涉及三个主要条件： 室内/室外跑步；户外场地中较大的团体；以及动物园团体 在自然主义的圈子里。黑猩猩将被观察到 现有的确定攻击性频率的详细方法 行为、隶属模式、游戏、生育行为等。 拟议的研究寻求将行为和兽医措施整合在一起 福祉，同时特别关注环境保护措施 诱导应激，从行为应激措施到排泄物 皮质醇水平和免疫学数据。猪尾猕猴的研究进展 将仿照之前对恒河猴进行的大规模研究。 它将涉及畜栏安置的团体以及小型后宫团体。这个 对辫尾猕猴的研究将完全是观察性的和行为性的。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the applicant's abstract): The purpose of this interdisciplinary project is to accumulate information on the relation between physical and psychological health of captive primates and their social housing conditions. This information is needed to successfully manage existing colonies of AIDS animal models, such as the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), and pigtail macaque (M. nemestrina). Data collected on nonhuman primates under a variety of conditions will be supplemented with a unique data base accumulated during previous research. Standardized behavioral protocols and a computerized data base will enhance the ability of national breeding programs to justify existing housing conditions and/or provide an empirical basis for the design of future facilities. One of the envisaged end-products is a guide with behavioral data collection techniques, basal levels of easy-to-observe behavior patterns, as well as general health information. At the same time, the proposed research is part of an ongoing effort to develop a new theoretical model of environmental effects on aggressive behavior. The existing model, which attributes aggression levels to crowding, has serious flaws. Nonhuman primates have many checks and balances on aggression and violence, and appear to effectively cope and neutralize social tensions related to high population densities through appeasement and peacemaking. Research on chimpanzees will concern three main conditions: small groups in indoor/outdoor runs; larger groups in outdoor compounds; and, zoo groups in naturalistic enclosures. The chimpanzees will be observed with existing, detailed methods to determine the frequency of aggressive behavior, affiliation patterns, play, reproductive behavior, etc. The proposed study seeks to integrate behavioral and veterinary measures of well-being while paying special attention to measures of environmentally induced stress, ranging from behavioral stress measures to fecal cortisol levels, and immunological data. Research on pigtail macaques will be modeled after a previous large-scale study of rhesus monkeys. It will involve corral-housed groups as well as small harem groups. The study of pigtail macaques will be entirely observational and behavioral.