BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT OF DELETERIOUS AGGRESSION IN RHESUS MACAQUES

该子项目是利用资源的许多研究子项目之一 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供。子项目的主要支持 而子项目的主要调查员可能是由其他来源提供的， 包括其它NIH来源。 列出的子项目总成本可能 代表子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， NCRR赠款不直接向子项目或子项目工作人员提供资金。 在NIH/NCRR资助的国家灵长类动物研究中心的繁殖计划中，恒河猴被安置在大型户外围栏中的多雄性多雌性社会群体中，模拟自然的社会和环境特征 这是一个物种的特征，提高他们的生殖能力以及他们的心理健康。尽管这种自然的社会住房的重要性，在社会住房猕猴最困难的问题之一是他们的倾向，自发的有害的攻击。该项目的长期目标是降低圈养繁殖群中恒河猴的有害攻击率。这个特定的应用程序的目的是提高目前的行为管理技术，通过开发一组预测模型的组内的社会和组级管理因素，导致有害的侵略和侵略为基础的发病率和死亡率组圈养的恒河猴。发展有益的管理实践，减少侵略为基础的发病率和死亡率在恒河猴繁殖群体将有助于公共卫生，提高健康和福利的恒河猴繁殖殖民地提供的动物资源进行生物医学研究的非人灵长类动物。

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.