ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中的一个 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目及 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为 研究中心，而研究中心不一定是研究者所在的机构。 2006年扩大了环境富集和行为研究方案。 增设了一个环境浓缩技术员职位，以支持强化浓缩方案。 在扩大研究动物的社会住房使用和实施各种富集技术方面取得了更多进展。 被安置在社会的研究群体的比例增加了，和社会化的候选人和介绍结果的详细数据允许引进方法的完善。 繁殖群体的社会管理决策也越来越多地受到行为观察的指导。 新的笼舍系统通过增加社会住房空间的灵活性，更舒适的栖息，更安静的机制，以及为获得主要饮食提供操纵挑战的喂食漏斗，提高了福祉。 数百个额外的觅食设备也已投入使用。 环境得到了改善，增加了corpus和corncribs的结构，并增加了执行水平喂养和便携式浓缩。 积极的强化训练方法被纳入了几个研究项目，并修改了饲养程序，以减少对物理或化学约束的需要。 环境富集和行为研究协调员与杜兰大学医学院药理学系、杜兰大学基因治疗中心、东南路易斯安那大学心理学系和耶基斯国家灵长类动物研究中心动物资源系的科学家和研究生进行合作研究。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The environmental enrichment and behavioral research programs were expanded in 2006. An additional environmental enrichment technician position was created to support an enhanced enrichment program. Additional progress was made in expanding the use of social housing for research animals and the implementation of a variety of enrichment techniques. The proportion of the research colony that is housed socially has increased, and detailed data on socialization candidates and introduction outcomes permitted the refinement of introduction methodology. Social management decisions in breeding groups were also increasingly guided by behavioral observations. New caging systems have enhanced wellbeing through increased flexibility in social housing space, more comfortable perching, quieter mechanisms, and feeding hoppers providing a manipulative challenge for obtaining the primary diet. Hundreds of additional foraging devices have been put into use as well. Environments were enhanced with additional structures in corrals and corncribs and an increased implementation levels feeding and portable enrichment. Positive reinforcement training methods were incorporated into several research projects and husbandry procedures were modified to reduce the need for physical or chemical restraint. The Environmental Enrichment and Behavioral Research Coordinator conducts collaborative research with scientists and graduate students in the Department of Pharmacology at the Tulane University School of Medicine, the Tulane University Center for Gene Therapy, the Department of Psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University, and the Department of Animal Resources at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.