This study will advance the current understanding of how structural, occupational, and social enrichment strategies can be implemented proactively and in combination to accomplish meaningful reductions in social aggression and trauma that generate a net cost savings for the CNPRC. Our investigation of social network structure and dynamics using new network measures and techniques will allow us to gain a deeper understanding of whether/how these enrichment strategies accomplish such reductions in trauma and hospitalizations, such as offering methodologies for examining the complexity of social stability, and our utilization of a thorough economic approach to calculate all costs associated with enrichment implementation will allow us to conclude with certainty which enrichment strategies reduce hospitalizations with minimal increases in staff time to yield significant cost savings for the CNPRC, and ultimately improve animal welfare in a cost-effective fashion.

Public Health Relevance

This study will advance the current understanding of deleterious aggression in captive nonhuman primates using an experimental social network approach that will allow the development of an adaptive management program for primate facilities that will enhance group stability and successfully reduce deleterious aggression and prevent severe outbreaks in group- housed rhesus macaques. The rhesus macaque is an important biomedical model for human health research and this research is relevant by addressing the 3R's.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)
Type
Resource-Related Research Projects (R24)
Project #
2R24OD011136-09
Application #
8998790
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1)
Program Officer
Moro, Manuel H
Project Start
2007-09-30
Project End
2020-06-30
Budget Start
2016-07-01
Budget End
2017-06-30
Support Year
9
Fiscal Year
2016
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of California Davis
Department
Veterinary Sciences
Type
Primate Centers
DUNS #
047120084
City
Davis
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
95618
McCowan, Brenda; Beisner, Brianne; Hannibal, Darcy (2018) Social management of laboratory rhesus macaques housed in large groups using a network approach: A review. Behav Processes 156:77-82
Seil, Shannon K; Hannibal, Darcy L; Beisner, Brianne A et al. (2017) Predictors of insubordinate aggression among captive female rhesus macaques. Am J Phys Anthropol 164:558-573
Theil, Jacob H; Beisner, Brianne A; Hill, Ashley E et al. (2017) Effects of Human Management Events on Conspecific Aggression in Captive Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta). J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci 56:122-130
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Fushing, Hsieh; Jordà, Òscar; Beisner, Brianne et al. (2014) Computing Systemic Risk Using Multiple Behavioral and Keystone Networks: The Emergence of a Crisis in Primate Societies and Banks. Int J Forecast 30:797-806
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Beisner, Brianne A; McCowan, Brenda (2014) Signaling context modulates social function of silent bared-teeth displays in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Am J Primatol 76:111-21
Chan, Stephanie; Fushing, Hsieh; Beisner, Brianne A et al. (2013) Joint modeling of multiple social networks to elucidate primate social dynamics: I. maximum entropy principle and network-based interactions. PLoS One 8:e51903
Fushing, Hsieh; Wang, Hui; Vanderwaal, Kimberly et al. (2013) Multi-scale clustering by building a robust and self correcting ultrametric topology on data points. PLoS One 8:e56259
Beisner, Brianne A; McCowan, Brenda (2013) Policing in nonhuman primates: partial interventions serve a prosocial conflict management function in rhesus macaques. PLoS One 8:e77369

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