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The development of social behavior by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) has attracted the interest of numerous investigators over the past 2 decades. Researchers have watched rhesus monkey infants grow up in many different physical and social settings, including feral environments within the Indian subcontinent (Lindburg, 1973; Taylor et al., 1980), outdoor enclosures containing social groups similar in composition to those found in the wild (Sade, 1967; Berman, 1978), and a variety of laboratory environments in which access to social stimuli is under rigorous experimental control (Hansen, 1966; Hinde and Spencer-Booth, 1967; Dienske and Metz, 1977). In general, it has been found that if rhesus monkeys are reared under conditions of severe social deprivation obvious psychopathology will result, but if they are reared in social environments that contain their mothersand access to peers they will most likely develop behavioral repertoires highly similar to those displayed by rhesus monkeys reared in natural habitats (Harlow and Harlow, 1969; Suomi and Harlow, 1978). Indeed, monkeys reared in socially “adequate” laboratory environments follow the same general ontogenic schedule, in terms of the timing and sequence of emergence of specific patterns of behavior, as do rhesus monkeys who grow up in the wild (Rosenblum 1971; Suomi, 1977).
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Suomi, S.J. (1983). Social Development in Rhesus Monkeys: Consideration of Individual Differences. In: Oliverio, A., Zappella, M. (eds) The Behavior of Human Infants. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3784-3_5
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