APPLIED RESEARCH FOR IMPROVING THE BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT

这项研究是灵长类动物繁育计划的补充 亚利桑那州基金会和德克萨斯大学兽医资源 组织。这两个机构组成了一个研究联盟， 将包括160多只黑猩猩(泛黑猩猩)的数据。计划中的 研究将调查影响生产的因素 来自圈养出生的动物的成功繁殖者；寻求在 圈养繁殖群体的饲养；以及确定可能允许 更准确地预测圈养繁殖项目的生产力。 主要的推力是一套合作的行为研究项目 在这两个机构都要完成。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 与不同养育模式中的其他同伴一起，我们希望能够 确定将产生行为的饲养条件的范围 足够的成年人。一旦这些动物成年，它们之间的关系 他们成年后的行为充分性和他们不成熟时的行为意志 被调查以确定青少年成人行为的预测因素 动物是可以辨认的。如果是这样的话，这些将允许及早分配 动物到研究项目、替代育种员池或干预 计划，以提高它们繁殖的机会。作为这些的必然结果 行为项目，对身体生长、发育和衰老的研究 确定圈养黑猩猩对抗的正常变异性范围 哪些被怀疑为越轨的人可能会被评判。其他 行为实验将(1)确定原因并测试干预措施 对抗攻击导致圈养群体的创伤，以及(2)测试 使用黑猩猩行为的录像带作为环境丰富和 对于独居动物来说，这可能是一个社交工具。对现有的研究 来自三个机构的未来殖民地记录将提供关于 母亲年龄、产次等变量对生育成功率的影响 以及产后不孕症的持续时间。这一信息将会改善 预测殖民地生产力的能力。

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.