APPLIED RESEARCH FOR IMPROVING THE BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT

拟议的行为研究计划旨在改善 对圈养猕猴的管理，并最大限度地提高 由此产生的SPF恒河猴群体的繁殖潜力。 改善单车和单车的环境条件 将研究社会安置的恒河猴，记录对 活跃性、行为病理学和激励性。四个类别的 将对环境浓缩进行评估和比较。这个 所提议的SPF派生策略是否足以产生 有能力的饲养者和父母的动物将是 已评估。环境富集化、环境富集化、 应激激素测量，应激行为指数，遗传 动物和B型疱疹病毒的特征将是 统计分析。这将在以下方面有实际应用 确定哪些动物不太容易受到有害物质的影响 单笼的后果和开始选择性的 这类动物的繁育计划。在我们的SPF派生中 策略，定义预测乙肝病毒感染的行为特征 表达将允许进行最小化的社交分组 新接触感染的可能性。结果来自所有 这些研究项目将直接应用于改进 猕猴群的照顾和管理。

The proposed behavioral research program is designed to improve the management of captive rhesus monkeys and to maximize the breeding potential of the resulting SPF rhesus colony. Improvements in the environmental conditions for singly and socially housed rhesus will be studied, documenting effects on activity, behavioral pathologies and agonism. Four categories of environmental enrichment will be evaluated and compared. The adequacy of the proposed SPF derivation strategy for producing animals that are competent breeders and parents will be evaluated. Relationships between environmental enrichment, hormonal measures of stress, behavioral indices of stress, genetic characterization of animals and Herpes B virus status will be statistically analyzed. This will have practical application in identifying animals that are less susceptible to the detrimental consequences of single caging and in beginning a selective breeding program of such animals. Within our SPF derivation strategy, defining a behavioral profile predictive of HBV infection expression will allow social groupings to be made that minimize the probability of new exposures to infection. Results from all of these research projects will have direct application to improving the care and management of rhesus monkey colonies.