ADAPTATION OF LABORATORY REARED MONKEYS TO FIELD ENVIRONMENTS

这个项目调查了恒河猴和其他非人类灵长类动物如何 在不同实验室条件下出生和长大的物种适应 放置在自然主义的户外环境中，其中包含特定的 猴子自然栖息地的物理和社会特征。调适 通过检查行为指令表和监控 这些受试者的各种生理系统，产生了广泛的基础 身体和心理相对幸福感指数。回应： 受试者对其选定的特征进行实验操作 各自的环境也以类似的方式进行评估。在.期间 1994财政年度为本土经济中心建造新的避难所设施 NIHAC的5英亩户外围栏已经开始，减少了一些 与常驻恒河猴队伍正在进行的研究。然而，数据 收集一系列研究空间记忆的资料 关于熟悉和新奇物体的位置的功能 占地5英亩的围栏已经完工，物理和环境的影响 正在进行的部队行为建设造成的社会混乱 并记录了栖息地的使用情况。寿命纵向行为 维持一组对照恒河猴的个人资料 从出生起在室内住房中表现出显著的稳定性 从成年初期到成年前的个人和性别特征 衰老，尽管在某些情况下发生了显著的发育变化 作为年龄增长的函数的行为。广泛的研究 对卷尾猴工具使用行为的调查大大扩展 该物种使用工具任务的已知范围和复杂性 精通的能够掌握的，包括以前被认为是 仅限于人类及其直系原始人祖先。另一套 研究采用了视频游戏技术来展示令人印象深刻的 卷尾猴的认知能力涉及自我识别因素 猴子在性质上与黑猩猩和人类的相似。数据 从几个实地研究中考察了群体之间的关系 汉语发声的社会结构、语境和声学特征 在过去的一年里，发表了3种新大陆灵长类动物。最后， 在编辑和分析方面取得了重大的方法进步 通过遥测从自由牧场收集的心理生理数据 猴子以及在发育过程中复杂的生长曲线 用于分析小n个纵向数据集的建模技术。

This project investigates how rhesus monkeys and other nonhuman primate species born and raised under different laboratory conditions adapt to placement into naturalistic outdoor environments that contain specific physical and social features of the monkeys' natural habitat. Adaptation is assessed by examining behavioral repertoires and by monitoring a variety of physiological systems in these subjects, yielding broad-based indices of relative physical and psychological well-being. The responses of subjects to experimental manipulations of selected features of their respective environments are also assessed in similar fashion. During FY94 construction of a new addition to the shelter facility for the LCE's 5-acre outdoor enclosure at the NIHAC was begun, curtailing some of the ongoing research with the resident rhesus monkey troop. However, data collection for a series of studies investigating spacial memory capabilities regarding the location of familiar and novel objects within the 5-acre enclosure was completed, and the effects of the physical and social disruption produced by the construction on ongoing troop behavior and habitat usage was documented. Lifespan longitudinal behavioral profiles exhibited by a comparison group of rhesus monkeys maintained from birth in indoor housing demonstrated remarkable stability of both individual and gender-specific profiles from early adulthood to senescence, despite significant developmental changes in certain behaviors as a function of increasing age. Extensive studies investigating tool-using behavior in capuchin monkeys greatly expanded the known range and complexity of tool-using tasks that the species is capable of mastering, including certain tasks previously thought to be limited to humans and their direct hominid ancestors. Another set of studies employed video game technology to demonstrate impressive cognitive capabilities involving elements of self-recognition in capuchin monkeys qualitatively similar to those of chimpanzees and humans. Data from several field studies investigating the relationship between group social structure and context and acoustical features of vocalizations in 3 species of New World primates were published this past year. Finally, major methodological advances were achieved in the editing and analysis of psychophysiological data collected via telemetry from free-ranging monkeys, as well as in the development of sophisticated growth curve modelling techniques for analyzing small-n longitudinal data sets.