APPLIED RESEARCH FOR IMPROVING THE BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT

改善行为管理的应用研究

• 批准号: 3450828
• 负责人: MICHALE E KEELING
• 金额: $ 20.31万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1986
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1986-09-30 至 1990-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3450828
• 关键词: Pan; animal care; animal colony; animal ecology; ethology; mother child interaction

This research is a companion to the breeding programs from the Primate Foundation of Arizona and University of Texas, Veterinary Resources Division. These two institutions have formed a research consortium that will include data on over 160 chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). The planned research will investigate the factors influencing the production of successful breeders from captive born animals; seek improvements in the husbandry of captive breeding groups; and determine methods which may allow more precise predictions of productivity from captive breeding programs. The principle thrust is a set of cooperative behavioral research projects to be accomplished at both institutions. By carefully documenting the ontogeny of social and sexual behavior of infants with their mothers, and with other companions in various rearing paradigms, we expect to be able to determine the range of rearing conditions that will produce behaviorally adequate adults. Once these animals are adults, the relationship between their behavioral adequacy as adults and their behavior while immature will be investigated to determine if predictors of adult behavior in young animals can be identified. If so, these would allow early assignment of animals to research programs, replacement breeder pool, or interventional programs to improve their chances to breed. As a corollary to these behavioral projects, studies of physical growth, development and aging will identify the range of normal variability in captive chimpanzees against which individuals suspected of being deviant may be judged. Other behavioral experiments will (1) identify causes and test interventions against aggression resulting in trauma in captive groups, and (2) test the use of videotapes of chimpanzee behavior as environmental enrichment and as a possible socializing tool for singly housed animals. Studies of existing and future colony records from three institutions will provide data on the effects of mother's age, parity and other variables on reproductive success and the length of postpartum infertility. This information will improve the ability to predict productivity in a colony.

这项研究是灵长类动物育种计划的配套研究 亚利桑那州基金会和德克萨斯大学兽医资源 分配。 这两个机构组成了一个研究联盟 将包括超过 160 只黑猩猩（Pan troglodytes）的数据。 计划的 研究将探讨影响生产的因素 圈养动物的成功繁殖者；寻求改进 圈养繁殖群体的饲养；并确定可能允许的方法 更准确地预测圈养繁殖计划的生产力。 主要推动力是一系列合作行为研究项目 在两个机构都可以完成。 通过仔细记录 婴儿与其母亲的社会和性行为的个体发育，以及 与不同饲养模式中的其他同伴一起，我们期望能够 确定会产生行为的饲养条件范围 足够的成年人。 一旦这些动物成年后，它们之间的关系 他们作为成年人的行为是否充分以及他们在不成熟的意愿时的行为 进行调查以确定是否可以预测年轻人的成年行为 可以识别动物。 如果是这样，这些将允许尽早分配 动物进行研究计划、替代饲养池或干预 旨在提高其繁殖机会的计划。 作为这些的推论 行为项目、身体生长、发育和衰老的研究将 确定圈养黑猩猩的正常变异范围 哪些个人被怀疑有异常行为可能会受到审判。 其他 行为实验将 (1) 找出原因并测试干预措施 对抗导致圈养群体创伤的攻击行为，以及（2）测试 使用黑猩猩行为的录像带作为环境丰富和 对于单独饲养的动物来说，这是一种可能的社交工具。 对现有的研究 三个机构未来的菌落记录将提供有关 母亲的年龄、胎次和其他变量对生殖成功的影响 以及产后不孕的持续时间。 这些信息将得到改善 预测群体生产力的能力。