Proactive Management to Improve Laboratory Macaque Breeding Colony Health and Well-being

项目摘要 这项研究将促进目前对涉及可预测性的管理程序的理解， 机会和控制可以主动实施，以实现有意义的减少压力，社会 攻击和创伤，为CNPRC（和其他灵长类动物设施）节省净成本。我们 使用新的网络测量和技术对社会网络结构和动态的调查将允许 让我们更深入地了解这些管理策略是否/如何实现这种减少 在压力和创伤方面，例如提供研究社会稳定复杂性的方法， 利用全面的经济方法计算与执行 管理程序将使我们能够肯定地得出结论，哪些管理战略减少 由于压力和创伤而住院，工作人员的时间增加很少，从而节省了大量费用 为CNPRC（和其他灵长类动物设施），并最终改善动物健康和福祉的成本- 有效的时尚。

Project Summary This study will advance the current understanding of how management procedures that involve predictability, opportunity and control can be implemented proactively to accomplish meaningful reductions in stress, social aggression and trauma that generate a net cost savings for the CNPRC (and other primate facilities). Our investigation of social network structure and dynamics using novel network measures and techniques will allow us to gain a deeper understanding of whether/how these management strategies accomplish such reductions in stress and trauma, such as offering methodologies for examining the complexity of social stability, and our utilization of a thorough economic approach to calculate all costs associated with implementation of management procedures will allow us to conclude with certainty which management strategies reduce hospitalizations due to stress and trauma with minimal increases in staff time to yield significant cost savings for the CNPRC (and other primate facilities), and ultimately improve animal health and well-being in a cost- effective fashion.