ADAPTATION OF LABORATORY REARED MONKEYS TO FIELD ENVIRONMENTS

这个项目调查了恒河猴和其他非灵长类动物 在不同实验室条件下出生和长大的物种适应 放置在自然主义的户外环境中，其中包含特定的 猴子自然栖息地的物理和社会特征。调适 通过检查行为指令表和监控 这些受试者的各种生理系统，产生了广泛的基础 身体和心理相对幸福感指数。在93财年期间 一个新的避难所设施，用于LCE位于 NIHAC由居住的恒河猴建成并占据 队伍，极大地扩大了开展试验的机会 在这些自由放养的猴子身上进行操作和生理采样。 初始数据收集侧重于记录不同的行为 以及个体队员对这一重大事件的生理反应 它们的自然栖息地发生了变化。调查空间的第二项研究 关于熟悉和新奇物体位置的记忆能力 在5英亩的围栏内开始了，而第三项研究比较了 三元互动的性质和比率(涉及母亲、婴儿、 和其他成年雌性)在这个自由放养的队伍中被观察到 图为美国加州圣地亚哥的野生恒河猴群。 复杂工具使用及其与偏侧性关系的开创性研究 卷尾猴的物体操纵倾向是 在93财年完成，并采用新的实验范式进行评估 利用视频的复杂认知和感知运动功能 游戏技术是为这只猴子开发和标准化的 物种。

This project investigates how rhesus monkeys and other nonprimate species born and raised under different laboratory conditions adapt to placement into naturalistic outdoor environments that contain specific physical and social features of the monkeys' natural habitat. Adaptation is assessed by examining behavioral repertoires and by monitoring a variety of physiological systems in these subjects, yielding broad-based indices of relative physical and psychological well-being. During FY93 a new shelter facility for the LCE's 5-acre outdoor enclosure at the NIHAC was completed and occupied by the resident rhesus monkey troop, greatly expanding the opportunities for carrying out experimental manipulations and physiological sampling in these free-ranging monkeys. Initial data collection focused on documenting the differential behavioral and physiological reactions of individual troop members to this major change in their physical habitat. A second study investigating spatial memory capabilities regarding the location of familiar and novel objects within the 5-acre enclosure was begun, while a third study compared the nature and rate of triadic interactions (involving mothers, infants, and other adult females) observed in this free-ranging troop with those seen in wild troops of rhesus monkeys on Cayo Santiago, PR. Pioneering studies of complex tool use and its relationship to laterality and object manipulation propensities in capuchin monkeys were completed in FY93, and a new experimental paradigm for evaluating complex cognitive and perceptual-motor capabilities that utilizes video game technology was developed and standardized for this monkey species.