THE EFFECT OF ENRICHMENT DEVICES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF FEMALE RHESUS MACAQUES

浓缩装置对雌性恒河猴行为的影响

• 批准号: 7715950
• 负责人: Kristine Coleman
• 金额: $ 2.77万
• 依托单位: OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7715950
• 关键词: Behavior; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Devices; Female; Food; Funding; Grant; Housing; Institution; Laboratories; Macaca mulatta; Monkeys; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Source; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Week; base; day; nonhuman primate

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. Nonhuman primates spend much of their day foraging for food in the wild; however, this time is often reduced in a laboratory setting. Many facilities provide enrichment devices or manipulanda to their monkeys in an effort to promote foraging and manipulation. These devices, which have holes through which monkeys can obtain food, are put on the outside of cages, and are filled with trail mix and produce. We provide monkeys with foraging devices on a rotating basis (i.e., two weeks with a device, two weeks without a device, followed by two weeks with a different device). While there has been an increase in the use of such manipulanda, there have been few studies examining the best way to provide these devices to monkeys, to increase the amount of time they spend foraging. This study examined the best ways to provide foraging enrichment to cage-housed monkeys.

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。子项目和 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。 非人灵长类动物一天中的大部分时间都在野外觅食;然而，在实验室环境中，这一时间往往会减少。许多设施向猴子提供富集装置或操纵装置，以促进觅食和操纵。这些设备，其中有孔，通过猴子可以获得食物，放在笼子外面，并充满了线索混合和生产。我们为猴子提供轮流觅食的设备（即，使用设备两周，不使用设备两周，随后使用不同的设备两周）。虽然这种机械臂的使用有所增加，但很少有研究探讨向猴子提供这些设备的最佳方式，以增加它们花费的觅食时间。这项研究探讨了最好的方法，提供觅食丰富的笼舍猴子。