Wolfe L D, Kollias G V, Collins B R, Hammond J A
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858.
J Med Primatol. 1991 Oct;20(8):414-8.
In order to control population growth rates, a decision was made to sterilize most of the free-ranging, wild rhesus macaque females of Silver Springs, Florida. Between October 1987 and March 1988, the five females who had been sterilized and released in the fall of 1986 were matched with five intact females in a behavioral study. While there were differences between the behaviors of the sterilized and intact females, the differences can be attributed more to differences in age, rank, and other factors than to the sterilization. Clinical data collected and reported on the monkeys is unremarkable.
为了控制种群增长率，人们决定对佛罗里达州银泉的大多数自由放养的野生恒河猴雌性进行绝育。1987年10月至1988年3月期间，在一项行为研究中，将1986年秋季已绝育并放归的5只雌性与5只未绝育雌性进行了配对。虽然绝育雌性和未绝育雌性的行为存在差异，但这些差异更多地可归因于年龄、等级和其他因素的不同，而非绝育。收集并报告的关于这些猴子的临床数据并无异常。
