BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT OF DELETERIOUS AGGRESSION IN RHESUS MACAQUES

这个子项目是利用资源的许多研究子项目之一。 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。对子项目的主要支持 子项目的首席调查员可能是由其他来源提供的， 包括美国国立卫生研究院的其他来源。为子项目列出的总成本可能 表示该子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， 不是由NCRR赠款提供给次级项目或次级项目工作人员的直接资金。 在NIH/NCRR赞助的国家灵长类动物研究中心的繁殖项目中，恒河猴被安置在模拟自然、社会和环境特征的大型户外畜栏中，以多雌-多母的社会群体形式饲养 这是该物种的特征，提高了它们的繁殖性能和心理健康。尽管这种自然主义的社会住房很重要，但社会住房猕猴最棘手的问题之一是它们倾向于自发地发起有害的攻击。该项目的长期目标是降低圈养繁殖的恒河猴群体的有害攻击率。这一特定应用的目的是通过开发一套预测模型来增强当前的行为管理技术，该模型用于预测群居恒河猴中导致有害攻击和基于攻击的发病率和死亡率的群组内社会和群组级别的管理因素。开发有益的管理实践，减少恒河猴繁育群体中基于攻击性的发病率和死亡率，将通过提高繁育群体中恒河猴的健康和福利来促进公共健康，这些繁育群体为对非人类灵长类动物进行生物医学研究提供关键的动物资源。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. In the NIH/NCRR sponsored breeding programs of the National Primate Research Centers, rhesus macaques are housed in multimale-multifemale social groups in large outdoor corrals which simulates the natural social and environmental features characteristic of the species, enhancing their reproductive performance as well as their psychological well-being. Despite the importance of this naturalistic social housing, one of the most difficult problems in socially-housed macaques is their propensity for spontaneous bouts of deleterious aggression. The long-term goal of this project is to reduce the rates of deleterious aggression in captive breeding colonies of rhesus macaques. The objective of this particular application is to enhance current behavioral management techniques by developing a set of predictive models of the within group social and group-level management factors that lead to deleterious aggression and aggression-based morbidity and mortality in group-housed rhesus macaques. Development of beneficial management practices that reduce aggression-based morbidity and mortality in rhesus breeding groups will contribute to public health by enhancing the health and welfare of rhesus macaques in breeding colonies that provide the animal resources critical for conducting biomedical research on nonhuman primates.