ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 2006年，环境浓缩和行为研究项目得到了扩大。设立了一个额外的环境浓缩技术员职位，以支持强化浓缩计划。在扩大对研究动物的社会住房的使用和实施各种浓缩技术方面取得了更多进展。社会化研究群体的比例有所增加，关于社会化候选者和引入结果的详细数据使引入方法得以改进。繁育群体的社会管理决策也越来越多地受到行为观察的指导。新的笼子系统通过增加社会住房空间的灵活性，更舒适的栖息，更安静的机制，以及为获得主要食物提供操控挑战的喂料斗，提高了人们的幸福感。数百个额外的觅食设备也投入使用。通过在畜栏和玉米仓中增加结构，以及提高实施水平，增加喂养和便携式浓缩，改善了环境。在几个研究项目中纳入了积极的强化训练方法，并修改了畜牧业程序，以减少对物理或化学约束的需要。环境丰富和行为研究协调员与杜兰大学医学院药理学系、杜兰大学基因治疗中心、东南部路易斯安那大学心理学系和耶克斯国家灵长类研究中心动物资源部的科学家和研究生开展合作研究。

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. The environmental enrichment and behavioral research programs were expanded in 2006. An additional environmental enrichment technician position was created to support an enhanced enrichment program. Additional progress was made in expanding the use of social housing for research animals and the implementation of a variety of enrichment techniques. The proportion of the research colony that is housed socially has increased, and detailed data on socialization candidates and introduction outcomes permitted the refinement of introduction methodology. Social management decisions in breeding groups were also increasingly guided by behavioral observations. New caging systems have enhanced wellbeing through increased flexibility in social housing space, more comfortable perching, quieter mechanisms, and feeding hoppers providing a manipulative challenge for obtaining the primary diet. Hundreds of additional foraging devices have been put into use as well. Environments were enhanced with additional structures in corrals and corncribs and an increased implementation levels feeding and portable enrichment. Positive reinforcement training methods were incorporated into several research projects and husbandry procedures were modified to reduce the need for physical or chemical restraint. The Environmental Enrichment and Behavioral Research Coordinator conducts collaborative research with scientists and graduate students in the Department of Pharmacology at the Tulane University School of Medicine, the Tulane University Center for Gene Therapy, the Department of Psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University, and the Department of Animal Resources at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.