论文标题
行为跟踪系统推进灵长类动物福利的承诺
The promise of behavioral tracking systems for advancing primate animal welfare
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论文摘要
近年来，在计算机系统穿越大型和不受限制的环境时，它们在动物的位置上追踪的能力取得了重大进展。到目前为止，这些系统在灵长类动物学，心理学，神经科学和生物医学领域都是巨大的福音。在这里，我们讨论了这些技术对动物福利的承诺。它们的潜在好处包括识别和减轻圈养人群中的疼痛，痛苦和困扰，在动物研究的三个rs（减少，精致和替代者）的背景下改善实验室动物福利，并运用我们对动物行为的理解来增加面临人类影响挑战的圈养和野生种群中的自然行为。我们注意到，这些好处通常与这些跟踪系统的设计目的有关，这反映了动物福利对研究进度并不是无意的事实，而是，基础研究和福利之间的一致利益与改善动物幸福感有很大的希望。
Recent years have witnessed major advances in the ability of computerized systems to track the positions of animals as they move through large and unconstrained environments. These systems have so far been a great boon in the fields of primatology, psychology, neuroscience, and biomedicine. Here, we discuss the promise of these technologies for animal welfare. Their potential benefits include identifying and reducing pain, suffering, and distress in captive populations, improving laboratory animal welfare within the context of the three Rs of animal research (reduction, refinement, and replacement), and applying our understanding of animal behavior to increase the natural behaviors in captive and wild populations facing human impact challenges. We note that these benefits are often incidental to the designed purpose of these tracking systems, a reflection of the fact that animal welfare is not inimical to research progress, but instead, that the aligned interests between basic research and welfare hold great promise for improvements to animal well-being.
