ADAPTATION OF LABORATORY REARED MONKEYS TO FIELD ENVIRONMENTS

这个项目调查了恒河猴和其他灵长类物种 在不同的实验室条件下出生和长大，适应安置 进入自然主义的户外环境，其中包含特定的物理 以及猴子自然栖息地的社会特征。适应是 通过检查行为曲目和通过监控各种 这些受试者的生理系统，产生了基础广泛的指数 相对的身体和心理健康。在92财年期间详细介绍 活着的恒河猴各成员之间的纵向比较 在一个5英亩的户外围栏里，年龄相仿的群体成员 在可比时期内住在室内围栏的时间是按顺序进行的 评估提供室内小组的行为后果 有促进觅食活动的底物，以及可以 探索性和操纵性行为增加。其他重点分析 栖息地恒河猴种群的栖息地利用研究 室外围挡，比较传统的生态和功能 从社会依恋衍生的分析技术方法 理论。儿童正常行为节目表的横断面研究 卷尾猴生活在三种不同的物理和社会环境中 已经完成了。最后，对这一独特的工具进行了几项研究-- 利用卷尾猴的特性，猴子被启动了。

This project investigates how rhesus monkeys and other primate 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 FY92 detailed longitudinal comparisons between members of a rhesus monkey trop living in a 5-acre outdoor enclosure and similarity aged members of groups living in indoor pens over a comparable period were carried out in order to evaluate the behavioral consequences of providing the indoor groups with a substrate that promoted foraging activity, as well as toys that increased exploratory and manipulative behaviors. Other analyses focused on habitat utilization by members of the rhesus monkey troop living in the outdoor enclosure, comparing traditional ecological and functional approaches with analytic techniques derived from social attachment theory. A cross-sectional study of normative behavioral repertoires of capuchin monkeys living in three different physical and social settings was completed. Finally, several studies focusing on the unique tool- using properties of capuchin monkeys were initiated.