NUTRITIONAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT

这项拟议的研究的目标是在更多的分子水平上进行研究 比以前可能的水平，相互关系的动态 种群生物学、营养、社会互动和亲子关系 热带稀树大草原狒狒、鹦鹉的亲缘关系。拟议的研究 将在设计上是纵向的，使我们能够跟踪 营养、能量需求和亲子关系贯穿始终 一生及其在家庭内部和世代之间的相似性。 受试者是安博塞利国家公园里的野生动物， 都是可以单独辨认的。背景人口、生态和 自1971年以来，一直在收集关于这些人的社会数据。 系统的数量行为和营养样本将通过以下方式获得 PI和他的同事在之前的研究中开发的技术 同样的人口。

The goal of the proposed research is to investigate at a more molecular level than previously possible the dynamics of interrelationships among population biology, nutrition, social interactions, and parent-offspring relations in savannah baboons, Papio cynocephalus. The proposed research will be longitudinal in design, enabling us to trace consistency in nutrition, energetic demands, and parent-offspring relationships throughout lifetimes and their similarities within families and across generations. The subjects, wild unprovisioned animals inhabiting Amboseli National Park, are individually recognizable. Background demographic, ecological and social data have been collected on these individuals since 1971. Systematic quantitative behavior and nutrition samples will be obtained by techniques developed by PI and co-workers during previous research on the same population.