Sentences with phrase «infant monkeys»

Finalists: Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet (Soft Skull Press) and In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (W.W. Norton & Company)

An interesting example from primate studies relates to dogs as surrogate mothers for infant monkeys.

Experiments that separate infant monkeys from their mothers cause profound and unnecessary suffering.

Infant monkeys reared in isolation — He took babies and isolated them from birth.

Harlow (1958) found that infant monkeys became attached to surrogate mothers when away from their real mothers.

He placed infant monkeys in a cage with two surrogate mother dolls: one made of wire holding a bottle of milk and the other made of soft cloth.

When he brought some other infant monkeys up on their own, but with 20 minutes a day in a playroom with three other monkeys, he found they grew up to be quite normal emotionally and socially.

Infant monkeys reared with surrogate mothers — 8 monkeys were separated from their mothers immediately after birth and placed in cages with access to two surrogate mothers, one made of wire and one covered in soft terry toweling cloth.

The development of affective responsiveness in infant monkeys.

In one variation of the experiment, infant monkeys were separated from their mothers and placed them with surrogate mothers.

Harlow found that the infant monkeys would receive food from the wire mother, but preferred to spend most of their time with the soft mother.

In other words, the infant monkeys went to the wire mother only for food, but preferred to spend their time with the soft, comforting cloth mother when they were not eating.

While the infant monkeys would go to the wire mother to obtain food, they spent most of their days with the soft cloth mother.

One of the wire monkeys held a bottle from which the infant monkey could obtain nourishment, while the other wire monkey was covered with a soft terry cloth.

The infant monkeys were placed in cages with two wire monkey mothers.

The researchers then looked at the molars of four young macaque monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis, and correlated the barium signatures of the dentine and enamel of these teeth with data previously collected on the breastfeeding habits of the mother and infant monkeys.

At the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Laboratory of Comparative Ethology (LCE) in Poolesville, Md., headed by psychologist Stephen Suomi, infant monkeys are taken from their mothers often within hours of birth.

Previously he ran the iconic indie Soft Skull Press for which work he was awarded the Association of American Publishers» Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing in 2005 — the last book he edited there, Lydia Millet's Love in Infant Monkeys, was selected as a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Harlow (1958) also states that the infant monkeys form a close bond, or attachment to their surrogate cloth mothers.

These infant monkeys fared better in many aspects of their lives compared to others, who were provided with only a wire mother.

Developmental time course in human infants and infant monkeys, and the neural bases of inhibitory control in reaching

In one experiment, strange foreign objects were introduced to a cage with an infant monkey.

But the infant monkeys developed attachments to the cloth mothers, suggesting that the need for comfort and warmth are more important, or more psychologically ingrained, than the need for food.

In these dramatic studies, Harlow separated infant monkeys from their biological mothers and observed their attachment to inanimate surrogate mothers (wire monkey mannequins), demonstrating quite conclusively that in the absence of a living mother (or living mother surrogate), the infant monkeys would become quite attached to the mannequins.

Harlow recognized that it would be extremely important to note what happened to these infant monkeys as they developed, especially in the context of John Bowlby's observations of British war orphans.

Although the infant monkeys would go to the uncovered wire mannequins for feeding, they would return to the terrycloth covered mannequins to whom they had already become attached.

Harlow's 1958 publication, «The Nature of Love,» is based on the results of experiments which showed, approximately, that infant monkeys spent more time with soft mother - like dummies that offered no food than they did with dummies that provided a food source but were less pleasant to the touch.

The development of affectional responses in infant monkeys.