Maestripieri D
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043, USA.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 1999 Sep;110(1):17-25. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199909)110:1<17::AID-AJPA2>3.0.CO;2-M.
This study investigated whether infant abuse by female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) is a phenomenon specific to their own offspring or reflects a general tendency to interact negatively with infants. Several aspects of the relationship between maternal behavior, infant handling, and infant harassment were also investigated. Study subjects were 20 group-living rhesus mothers with their infants observed during the first 12 weeks of lactation. The results of this study indicate that abusive mothers are highly attracted to infants in general but that infant abuse is a phenomenon specific to their own offspring. Infant harassment is not an accidental by-product of infant handling or the result of maternal inexperience but it is likely related to reproductive competition among lactating females. Maternal behavior and infant handling may be regulated by similar proximate mechanisms, but probably have different adaptive functions and evolutionary history across the Primate order. Am J Phys Anthropol 110:17-25.
本研究调查了雌性恒河猴（猕猴属）虐待幼崽是其自身后代特有的现象，还是反映了与幼崽消极互动的普遍倾向。同时还研究了母性行为、幼崽照料及幼崽骚扰之间关系的几个方面。研究对象为20只群居的恒河猴母亲及其幼崽，在哺乳期的前12周进行观察。本研究结果表明，有虐待行为的母亲总体上对幼崽极具吸引力，但虐待幼崽是其自身后代特有的现象。幼崽骚扰并非幼崽照料的偶然副产品，也不是母猴缺乏经验的结果，而是可能与哺乳期雌性之间的生殖竞争有关。母性行为和幼崽照料可能受相似的近因机制调节，但在整个灵长目动物中可能具有不同的适应功能和进化史。《美国体质人类学杂志》110:17 - 25。
