Zou Hong, Luan Yi, Liu Ming, Agre Lynn A, Buyske Steven, Xie Qinglian, Cheng Zhiheng, Zhao Guoping, Jin Meilei, Guo Ning, Jin Gang Jason, Yu Lei
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China; State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
J Med Primatol. 2015 Feb;44(1):1-11. doi: 10.1111/jmp.12154. Epub 2014 Dec 2.
Non-human primates, when encountering human beings, show wariness and alertness. These behaviors differ when there is direct human gaze vs. when human averts his gaze.
We observed cynomolgus monkey in their home cage and studied their behaviors in response to human gaze. Four behaviors were analyzed: opening mouth, staring at observer, agitated activity, and approaching observer.
Three behaviors appeared to be sensitive to human gaze between when the human observer gazed at the monkey and when the human observer looked away. Individual animals also displayed subpatterns of responses to human gaze.
These results indicate that, even in their home cage, monkeys display a heightened level of awareness when gazed upon by a human observer, suggesting that human gaze may elicit emotional reactions. Further, under the human gaze, distinct behavioral subpatterns were apparent within the monkey cohort in our study, indicative of subgroups within the cohort.
非人灵长类动物在遇到人类时会表现出警惕和警觉。当人类直接注视与人类转移视线时,这些行为会有所不同。
我们在食蟹猴的笼舍中观察它们,并研究它们对人类注视的反应行为。分析了四种行为:张嘴、盯着观察者、躁动活动和接近观察者。
当人类观察者注视猴子和当人类观察者移开视线时,三种行为似乎对人类注视敏感。个体动物对人类注视也表现出不同的反应模式。
这些结果表明,即使在它们的笼舍中,猴子在被人类观察者注视时也表现出更高的警觉水平,这表明人类注视可能引发情绪反应。此外,在人类注视下,我们研究中的猴群内出现了明显不同的行为模式,表明该群体内存在亚组。