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。 2007年，环境丰富和行为研究项目继续取得进展。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。在增加对研究动物的社会住房的使用和实施各种浓缩技术方面继续取得进展。社会管理的重要改进是1)将猴子从相同的野外笼子直接转移到笼子中进行研究任务，以及2)维护笼子中等待研究方案分配的动物对。此外，野外笼子中优势等级的确定已经大大加快，对繁殖群体的行为观察正在产生更多信息，以指导社会管理。大约200个觅食装置已经改装到现有的笼子上。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。所有玉米仓和许多野外笼子和跑道的居住者都接受了进入捕捉伞的培训。丰富计划工作人员系统地为所有畜牧业员工的新员工培训做出贡献。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 continued to progress in 2007. An additional environmental enrichment technician position was created to support an enhanced enrichment program. Continued progress was made in increasing the use of social housing for research animals and the implementation of a variety of enrichment techniques. Important refinement to social management were 1) the transfer of monkey from the same field cages directly into pairs when moved to caging for research assignment, and 2) maintenance of caged animals awaiting research protocol assignment in pairs. In addition, determination of dominance hierarchies in field cages has been vastly accelerated and behavioral observations of breeding groups are generating more information for guiding social management. Approximately 200 foraging devices have been retrofitted onto existing cages. Positive reinforcement training methods were incorporated into several research projects and husbandry procedures were modified to reduce the need for physical or chemical restraint. Occupants of all corncribs and many field cages and runs have been trained to enter catch chutes. Enrichment program staff systematically contribute to new employee training for all husbandry staff. 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.