His team studies how early environment shapes behavior, work that involves separating
young monkeys from their mothers, measuring their addiction to alcohol, and monitoring their long - term stress levels.
This includes
separating young monkeys from their mothers, measuring their addiction to alcohol, and monitoring their long - term stress levels.
In fact,
young monkeys exposed to early short bouts of stress, such as brief periods of separation from their mothers, become more resilient to future stresses.
When he separated
young monkeys from their mothers, the monkeys passed through predictable stages of a separation response.
A small animal study suggests that high doses of the virus, called adeno - associated virus 9, can cause severe liver and neuron damage
in young monkeys and pigs.
Harlow
removed young monkeys from their natural mothers a few hours after birth and left them to be «raised» by these mother surrogates.
They injected tiny amounts of amyloid protein into the brains of the monkeys and found that old Rhesus monkeys developed Alzheimer's - like symptoms but
young monkeys stayed healthy.
The new Disneynature documentary Born in China explores the family lives of snow leopard cubs, a baby panda and some
lively young monkeys.
At the age of 16 - to - 24 months the newly formed family
of young monkeys will be transferred to a release center to begin their reintroduction to the jungle.
I've plucked
my younger monkey off the top of the wing chair thrice this morning.
Using a «strange situation» technique similar to the one created by attachment researcher Mary Ainsworth, Harlow allowed
the young monkeys to explore a room either in the presence of their surrogate mother or in her absence.
The young monkeys no longer had their secure base for exploration and would often freeze up, crouch, rock, scream, and cry.
In a later experiment, Harlow demonstrated that
young monkeys would also turn to their cloth surrogate mother for comfort and security.
It was found that
the young monkeys clung to the terrycloth mother whether or not it provided them with food, and that the young monkeys chose the wire surrogate only when it provided food.
The book's hero,
a young monkey named Pip, is desperately trying to help his family.
Alongside the pandas, we follow a snow leopard struggling to feed her cubs,
a young monkey feeling jealous of his new baby sister, and a giant herd of migrating antelope.
Aged monkeys performed significantly worse on the tests than
young monkeys, especially as the time intervals increased.
The young monkeys preferred heated, cloth covered mothers to wire mothers at any stage of their development.
Harlow found therefore that it was social deprivation rather than maternal deprivation that
the young monkeys were suffering from.
Stress decreases lymphocyte cytolytic activity in
the young monkey even after blockade of steroid and opiate hormone receptors