ADAPTATION OF LABORATORY REARED MONKEYS TO FIELD ENVIRONMENTS

这个项目调查了恒河猴和其他灵长类动物 在不同的实验室条件下出生和长大， 融入自然的户外环境， 以及猴子自然栖息地的社会特征。适应是 通过检查行为库和监测各种 生理系统在这些科目，产生广泛的指数 相对的生理和心理健康。在FY 92详细 一种恒河猴热带物种成员之间的纵向比较， 在一个5英亩的户外围栏里， 生活在室内围栏在可比的时间内进行了， 评估提供室内团体的行为后果， 有促进觅食活动的基质，以及玩具， 探索和操纵行为增加。其他重点分析 关于生活在非洲的恒河猴种群成员对栖息地的利用 室外围栏，比较传统的生态和功能 从社会依恋衍生的分析技术方法 理论一项关于青少年行为规范的横断面研究 卷尾猴生活在三种不同的环境中 完成了最后，一些研究集中在独特的工具- 使用卷尾猴的特性。

This project investigates how rhesus monkeys and other 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. During FY92 detailed longitudinal comparisons between members of a rhesus monkey trop living in a 5-acre outdoor enclosure and similarity aged members of groups living in indoor pens over a comparable period were carried out in order to evaluate the behavioral consequences of providing the indoor groups with a substrate that promoted foraging activity, as well as toys that increased exploratory and manipulative behaviors. Other analyses focused on habitat utilization by members of the rhesus monkey troop living in the outdoor enclosure, comparing traditional ecological and functional approaches with analytic techniques derived from social attachment theory. A cross-sectional study of normative behavioral repertoires of capuchin monkeys living in three different physical and social settings was completed. Finally, several studies focusing on the unique tool- using properties of capuchin monkeys were initiated.