PSGB Spring Meeting 2006

Primate Mentality and Wellbeing

Spring Meeting 2006, University of Stirling
Conference Programme

Monday 27th March

12.00-13.45 Registration (Room 2A73, Cottrell Building)

Session 1 (Lecture Theatre B3, Cottrell Building)
Invited Speakers - Primate Mentality and Wellbeing

2.00 Opening remarks – PSGB President Ann MacLarnon

2.15 Steven Schapiro, University of Texas
Taking advantage of primate mentality to enhance wellbeing: using positive reinforcement training techniques in research settings

3.00 Alexander Weiss, University of Edinburgh
Subjective well-being in zoo chimpanzees and orangutans

3.45-4.15 Coffee break

4.15 Hannah Buchanan-Smith, University of Stirling
Applying the three Rs to non-human primates

5.00 Sarah Wolfensohn, University of Oxford
Training primates to improve welfare in biomedical research

5.45-6.30 Posters and wine reception (Room 2A73)

Tuesday 28th March

Session 2 (Lecture Theatre B3, Cottrell Building)

9.30 Amanda Seed, University of Cambridge
Examining convergent evolution of mentality in species with divergent bodies: tests of physical cognition in corvids and apes

9.50 Anne Helme, University of Cambridge
Understanding physical contact: comparative cognition in rooks (Corvus frugilegus) and bonobos (Pan paniscus)

10.10 Norberto Asensio, Liverpool John Moores University
Intra-group aggression in wild spider monkeys

10.30 Martina Konecná, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Does recorded behaviour support trait ratings of observers in free-living male Hanuman langurs (Semnopithecus entellus)?

10.30-11.00 Coffee break and posters

11.00 Cécile Garcia, CNRS Paris
Female reproductive success in a group of captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)

11.20 Lindsay Skyner, University of Chester
Is cortisol a reliable indicator for assessing well-being in primates?

11.40 Cara McCusker, Queens University Belfast
Cortisol excretion is regulated by multiple behavioural and environmental factors not exclusively related to the stress response in captive ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta)

12.00 Johanna Rabineau, University of Exeter
Assessing the welfare of zoo-housed Abyssinian colobus (Colobus guereza kikuyuensis)

12.20-2.00 Lunch

Session 3 (Lecture Theatre B3, Cottrell Building)

2.00 Guy Norton and colleagues, Anglia Ruskin University
Symposium: Long-term studies on yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) behaviour and ecology in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania
• Guy Norton - Introduction
• Amy Stelman - The Effects of Climate and Group Size on the Time Budgets of Yellow Baboons
• Rachael Thompson - Demographic and Ecological Effects on Space Use in Yellow Baboons
• Michael Canas - Assessing the Influence and Effects of Rank upon Lifetime Reproductive Success in Female Yellow Baboons
• Liesel Jolly - Assessing the Influence of Rank, Demography and Resources on Secondary Sex Ratio Adjustment in the Yellow Baboon
• Helen Vargas-Ashby - The Function of Allogrooming in Yellow Baboons: Hygiene vs. Social

3.00 – 3.30 Coffee break and posters

3.30 Verity Bowell, University of Stirling
Identifying and dealing with individual differences in rates of learning when training common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

3.50 Vicky Melfi, Paignton Zoo Environmental Park
How can we measure if training is enriching?

4.10 Mark Prescott, National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs)
The NC3Rs and primate welfare

4.30-5.00 Prizes and closing remarks

Posters (Room 2A73, Cottrell Building)

1. Badihi, I., Buchanan-Smith, H. M. & Morris, K.
University of Stirling
The Brazilian monkeys in the Scottish weather

2. Barlow, C. J. C., Caldwell, C. A. & Lee, P. C.
University of Stirling
Individual differences and reactions to visitors in zoo-housed Diana monkeys

3. Fraser, O. & Aureli, F.
Liverpool John Moores University
Post-conflict consolation in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

4. Hockings, K., Anderson, J. & Matsuzawa, T.
University of Stirling
How do chimpanzees cross roads?

5. Horton, K. & Caldwell, C. A.
University of Exeter
Visual co-orientation and expectations about attentional orientation in pileated gibbons (Hylobates pileatus)

6. Hutchinson, J. & Fletcher, A.
University of Chester
To have and to hold: allomothering behaviour in captive lowland gorillas

7. Jones, M. K., Lee, P. C. & Buchanan-Smith, H. M.
University of Stirling
Assessing the importance of independent movement in novel enrichment devices for large felids

8. Keith, S. & Waller, M.
Oxford Brookes University
Vocal diversity of Kloss’s gibbons (Hylobates klossi) on the Mentawi Islands, Indonesia

9. Nowak, K. & Lee, P. C.
University of Cambridge
Behavioural flexibility and population persistence of a ‘specialist’ primate

10. Paukner, A. & Vick, S.
University of Stirling
Yawning in chimpanzees: its form and function

11. Roberts, A. I. & Roberts, S. G. B.
University of Stirling
Eco-tourism as a conservation strategy of the Western Lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in Mikongo Conservation Centre, Lopé National Park, Gabon

12. Roberts, S. G. B.
University of Stirling
Investigating hiding behaviour in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

12. Shanee, S. & Shanee, N.
Oxford Brookes University
Gibbon reintroduction, Phuket, Thailand

13. Solberg, M.
Oxford Brookes University
How important are mother-son bonds in bonobo society, and what are the implications for welfare in captivity?

14. Wells, D.
Queens University Belfast
The effect of visitors on zoo-housed gorillas