ESTABLISHMENT OF A BREEDING AND RESEARCH PROGRAM

我们建议建立一个专门的黑猩猩繁殖群体（Pan 穴居人）将产生 10 到 14 个健康且行为良好的个体 每年正常后代。 这些后代将被用来建立一个 稳定、自我维持的黑猩猩繁殖种群 保证这些动物未来可用于生物医学和 行为研究和测试。 我们建议进行育种 利用现有稳定的黑猩猩社会群体的计划，一对 使用已知的饲养动物进行交配并对雌性进行人工授精 不会自发繁殖的。 婴儿的管理方式如下： 最大限度地提高社会经验，包括广泛的母亲养育经验 可能的话，在需要托儿所照顾时进行同伴群体抚养，并培养 托儿所抚养的婴儿交给有能力的母亲。 我们还建议在能够促进改进的领域进行研究 生殖成功和效率以及改善的行为结果。 这个 研究将包括早期发现劳动力使用情况的调查 遥测技术可在需要时提供早期有效的帮助，从而 提高新生儿存活率；荷尔蒙操纵研究 缩短分娩间隔，无需将婴儿与婴儿分开 他们的母亲；配子保存方法以提高人工 育种技术并允许维持遗传系并促进 遗传多样性；以及早期饲养技术的研究 开发有利于后续成功的技术 繁殖并识别可预测未来的行为 生殖性能。

We propose to establish a dedicated breeding colony of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) that will produce between 10 and 14 healthy and behaviorally normal offspring per year. These offspring will be used to establish a stable, self-sustaining breeding population of chimpanzees that will guarantee the future availability of these animals for biomedical and behavioral research and testing. We propose to conduct the breeding program utilizing an existing stable social group of chimpanzees, pair matings using known breeder animals and artificial insemination of females that do not breed spontaneously. Infants will be managed in such a way as to maximize social experience, including extensive mother-rearing where possible, peer group-rearing when nursery care is required and fostering of nursery-reared infants onto competent mothers. We also propose to conduct research in areas that will promote improved reproductive success and efficiency and improved behavioral outcome. This research will include investigation of early detection of labor using telemetry to allow early and effective assistance when required and thus improve neonatal survival; investigation of hormonal manipulation to shorten interbirth intervals without the need to separate infants from their mothers; methods of gamete preservation to improve artificial breeding techniques and permit maintenance of genetic lines and to promote genetic diversity; and investigation of early rearing techniques in order to develop techniques that are conducive to subsequent successful reproduction and to identify behaviors that are predictive of future reproductive performance.