1993 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MATERNAL BEHAVIOR IN JAPANESE AND CYNOMOLGUS MACAQUES
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04610055
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Psychology
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| Research Institution | OSAKA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
MINAMI Tetsuhiro OSAKA UNIVERSITY, DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY, ASSOCIATE, 人間科学部, 助教授 (40030043)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MACHIDA Shoji OSAKA UNIVERSITY, DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, 人間科学部, 教務職員 (00222290)
IMAKAWA Shinji OSAKA UNIVERSITY, DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, 人間科学部, 助手 (00211756)
KANAZAWA Tadahiro OSAKA UNIVERSITY, DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, 人間科学部, 助手 (30214430)
NAKAMICHI Masayuki OSAKA UNIVERSITY, DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, 人間科学部, 助手 (60183886)
ITOIGAWA Naosuke OSAKA UNIVERSITY, DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY, PROFESSOR, 人間科学部, 教授 (90027962)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1992 – 1993
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| Keywords | maternal behaviors / clinging / embracing / contact / Japanese macaques / Cynomolgus macaques / Mother's grooming |
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| Research Abstract |
One-week-old macaques infant can cling tightly mother and the mother does not embrace the infant, even when the mother run or jimp. The infant can crawl with forelimbs and hindlimbs and take a distance form the mother. However, the mother inhibit infant's behaviors and sometines retrieve it when it is far away from her. Mother's embracing infant reduce rapidly in three or four months after infant's birth. Physical contact between mother and infant reduces with passing of time after infant's birth. Mother and infant reduces with passing of time after infant's birth. Mother's grooming infant does not change with infant age. Mother's behaviors change pradually. The similar trends are found in maternal bahaviors in Japanese and cynomolgus macaques.
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