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       Primate maternal behavior and offspring development

                                                Ongoing Projects

  • Maternal influences on offspring development in rhesus macaques.

                                             Relevant Publications


D. Maestripieri.
    Maternal anxiety in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). I. Measurement of anxiety and
    identification of anxiety-eliciting situations.
    Ethology, 95: 19-31, 1993.
D. Maestripieri.
    Maternal anxiety in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). II. Emotional bases of individual
    differences in mothering style.
    Ethology, 95: 32-42, 1993.
D. Maestripieri.
    Infant kidnapping in group-living rhesus macaques: why don't mothers rescue their infants?
    Primates, 34: 211-216, 1993.
D. Maestripieri.
    Vigilance costs of allogrooming in macaque mothers.
    The American Naturalist, 141: 744-753, 1993.
D. Maestripieri.
    Costs and benefits of maternal aggression in lactating female rhesus macaques.
    Primates, 35: 443-453, 1994.
D. Maestripieri.
    Influence of infants on female social relationships in monkeys.
    Folia Primatologica, 63: 192-202, 1994.
D. Maestripieri.
    Mother-infant relationships in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina,
   M.arctoides
). I. Development of the mother-infant relationship in the first three months.
    Behaviour, 131: 75-96, 1994.
D. Maestripieri.
    Mother-infant relationships in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina,
    M.arctoides
). II. The social environment.
    Behaviour, 131: 97-113, 1994.
D. Maestripieri.
    Social structure, infant handling, and mothering styles in group-living Old World monkeys.
    International Journal of Primatology, 15: 531-553, 1994.
D. Maestripieri.
    First steps in the macaque world: Do rhesus mothers encourage their infants' independent
    locomotion?
    Animal Behaviour, 49: 1541-1549, 1995.
D. Maestripieri.
    Maternal encouragement in nonhuman primates and the question of animal teaching.
    Human Nature, 6: 361-378, 1995.
D. Maestripieri.
    Assessment of danger to themselves and their infants by rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)
    mothers
    Journal of Comparative Psychology, 109: 416-420, 1995.
D. Maestripieri.
    Maternal responsiveness to infant distress calls in stumptail macaques.
    Folia Primatologica, 64: 201-206, 1995.
D. Maestripieri, J. Call.
    Mother-infant communication in primates.
    Advances in the Study of Behavior, 25: 613- 642, 1996.
D. Maestripieri.
    Maternal encouragement of infant locomotion in pigtail macaques, Macaca nemestrina.
    Animal Behaviour, 51: 603-610, 1996.
D. Maestripieri.
    Social and demographic influences on mothering style in pigtail macaques.
    Ethology, 104: 379-385, 1998.
M. Tomaszycki, C. Cline, B. Griffin, D. Maestripieri, W. D. Hopkins.
    Maternal cradling and infant nipple preferences in rhesus macaques.
    Developmental Psychobiology, 32: 305-312, 1998.
D. Maestripieri.
    Osservazione, registrazione e definizione delle relazioni madre-figlio nei primati non umani.
    In: Tecniche di Osservazione del Comportamento Infantile. Ed. by A. Tartabini, Milano:
    McGraw-Hill, pp. 37-51, 1998.
D. Maestripieri
    The biology of human parenting: Insights from nonhuman primates.
    Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 23: 411-422, 1999.
T. Jovanovic, N. L. Megna, D. Maestripieri.
    Early maternal recognition of offspring vocalizations in rhesus macaques
    (Macaca mulatta).
    Primates, 41: 421-428, 2000.
D. Maestripieri.
    Intraspecific variability in parenting styles of rhesus macaques: The role of the
    social environment.
    Ethology, 107: 237-248, 2001.
D. Maestripieri.
    Female-biased maternal investment in rhesus macaques.
    Folia Primatologica, 72: 44-47, 2001.
D. Maestripieri.
     Is there mother-infant bonding in primates?
     Developmental Review, 21: 93-120, 2001.
D. Maestripieri.
    Maternal dominance rank and age affect offspring sex ratio in pigtail macaques
   Journal of Mammalogy, 83: 563-568, 2002.
D. Maestripieri.
    Parent-offspring conflict in primates.
    International Journal of Primatology, 23: 923-951, 2002.
D. Maestripieri, S. K. Ross, N. L. Megna.
      Mother-infant interactions in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla):
      Spatial relationships, communication, and opportunities for social learning.
      Journal of Comparative Psychology, 116: 219-227, 2002.
D. Maestripieri
      Similarities in affiliation and aggression between cross-fostered rhesus macaque females
      and their biological mothers.
      Developmental Psychobiology, 43: 321-327, 2003.
J. R. Roney, D. Maestripieri.
      Social development and affiliation. In: Primate Psychology. Ed. by D. Maestripieri.
       Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 171-204, 2003.
D. Maestripieri, S. R. Ross
      Maternal influences on infant behavioral development in western lowland gorillas.
      In: Advances in Psychology Research, Vol. 27 (Ed. by S. P. Shohov). Hauppage,
      NY: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 96-112, 2004.

D. Maestripieri, S. R. Ross
      Sex differences in play among western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) infants:
     Implications for adult behavior and social structure.
     American Journal of Physical Anthropology,
123: 52-61, 2004.
D. Maestripieri.
      Maternal behavior, infant handling and socialization. In: Macaque Societies:
      A Model for the Study of Social Organization. Ed. by B. Thierry, M. Singh, W.  
      Kaumanns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 230-234, 2004.

D. Maestripieri
     Genetic aspects of mother-offspring conflict in rhesus macaques.
     Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 55: 381-387, 2004.

D. Maestripieri.
     Effects of early experience on female behavioral and reproductive development in rhesus macaques.
     Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B,
272: 1243-1248, 2005.
D. Maestripieri.
     Early experience affects the intergenerational transmission of infant abuse in rhesus monkeys.
     Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.,
102: 9726-9729, 2005.
M. S. Gerald, C. Waitt, D. Maestripieri.
  
 An experimental investigation of female responses to infant face coloration in rhesus macaques
   
Behavioural Processes, 73: 253-256, 2006.

D. Maestripieri, J. D. Higley, S. G. Lindell, T. K. Newman, K. McCormack, M. M. Sanchez.
     Early maternal rejection affects the development of monoaminergic systems and adult
     abusive parenting in rhesus macaques.
     Behavioral Neuroscience, 120: 1017-1024, 2006.

D. Maestripieri, K. M. McCormack, S. G. Lindell, J. D. Higley, M. M. Sanchez.
     Influence of parenting style on the offspring's behaviour and CSF monoamine metabolite
     levels in crossfostered and noncrossfostered female rhesus macaques.
     Behavioural Brain Research,175: 90-95, 2006.
C. Waitt, D. Maestripieri, M. S. Gerald.
    
Effects of parity and age on female attraction to faces of infants and neonates in rhesus macaques.
     Primates, 48: 164-167, 2007.

D. Maestripieri, S. G. Lindell, J. D Higley
    Intergenerational transmission of maternal behavior in rhesus macaques and its underlying mechanisms.
    Developmental Psychobiology, 49: 165-171, 2007.

 

Theses and Dissertations

Nicole Barger.  Variability in maternal behavior in two groups of captive lowland gorillas.  BA Honor's Thesis. University of Chicago, 2001.

Stephen Ross.  The effects of early rearing condition on the social behavioral development of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Master's Thesis, University of Chicago, 2003.
 

 

 
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