Program of the Thirty‐fifth Meeting Of The American Society of Primatologists June 20‐23, 2012

s / 25 CONTRIBUTED ABSTRACTS 1. ASP PRE-MEETING WORKSHOP: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PREVENTATIVE APPROACH FOR MANAGING LARGE BREEDING GROUPS OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES B. McCowan1 and K. Coleman2 1California National Primate Research Center, SVM: Population Health & Reproduction, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA, 95616, USA, 2Oregon National Primate Research Center Management of large breeding groups of macaques and other nonhuman primates requires a multidisciplinary approach involving the teamwork of colony managers, veterinarians and behavioral managers for addressing significant health challenges. Major issues include the high rate of deleterious aggression resulting in wounding and social relocations and the frequent presence of pathogenic and nonpathogenic diarrhea among other illnesses in such groups, which create major health issues requiring costly veterinary intervention. This workshop will provide a forum in which colony managers, veterinarians, behavioral managers and other stakeholders can discuss the topology of these major management issues as well as best management strategies to maximize the health and well-being of nonhuman primate groups. Topics will include (1) the important role that the triadic structure of colony management, therapeutics and behavior management plays in developing efficacious approaches by incorporating these valuable conceptual frameworks; (2) the assessment of specific animal and management risk factors involved in these pathologies to aid in preventative strategy development; and (3) the development of efficacious strategies to prevent and mitigate these health issues. Speakers include representatives from several National Primate Research Centers and a round table discussion will follow to broaden the discussion to a diversity of stakeholders. Co-moderators: Dr. Brenda McCowan and Dr. Kris Coleman. 2. SOCIAL BONDING IN HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN PRIMATES K. L. Bales Deptartment of Psychology and California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA This symposium will focus on the behavioral, evolutionary, psychological, and physiological processes associated with the formation and maintenance of social bonds in human and non-human primates. Talks will span primate taxa, including apes, humans, and monkeys; types of relationships including mother-infant and adult attachment relationships; and scientific disciplines with both anthropologists and psychologists represented. Finally, both lab and fieldwork on the topic will be presented as well as some of the newest and most exciting findings in the area of primate social relationships. 3. THE ORIGIN OF EMOTIONALLY MODERN HUMANS: WHAT IT MEANS TO DEVELOP AND EVOLVE AS A COOPERATIVELY BREEDING APE S. B. Hrdy Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA New evidence highlights the role of alloparents in addition to parents in the care and provisioning of immatures among our Pleistocene ancestors. In this lecture I explore cognitive and emotional implications of growing up in what was for an ape a very novel developmental context with novel selection pressures. According to this psychological component of the cooperative breeding hypothesis, large-brained, anatomically modern humans evolved by 200,000 years with behaviorally modern humans, capable of symbolic thought, language and highly coordinated social enterprises not far behind. But emotionally modern hominins interested in the mental and subjective states of others, better equipped for perspective-taking than apes ordinarily are and already characterized by prosocial impulses to share, began to emerge far earlier.