Abstract
Duane Rumbaugh’s influence on the field of comparative psychology will be long lasting and far reaching. He is best known for his continuing influence on the field of primate cognition, but his work and that of his mentees has branched out into other domains as well. Here we will focus specifically on his influence on the field of animal welfare and how place or location has shaped those influences. In our narrative, we will describe how different people with different perspectives interfaced over the decades by virtue of sharing space. We will reflect on a range of physical spaces: field versus wild, different cities or geographical locations, laboratory versus zoo, and actual versus virtual. Geographic location, indirectly and/or directly, will shape the interactions among scientists and their perspectives and values. In particular we will focus on how developments in the 20th Century in San Diego and Atlanta shaped the primate research community in both laboratories and zoos. We will provide the historical context and development of perspectives that have forever altered how we think of and co-exist with great apes. These interactions have yielded positive and strong connections between people that ultimately influence our understanding of and treatment of animal welfare.
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Duane Rumbaugh’s influence on the field of comparative psychology will be long lasting and far reaching
We will reflect on a range of physical spaces: field versus wild, different cities or geographical locations, laboratory versus zoo, and actual versus virtual
We will focus on how developments in the 20th century in San Diego and Atlanta shaped the primate research community in both laboratories and zoos
Summary
Duane Rumbaugh’s influence on the field of comparative psychology will be long lasting and far reaching. The early 20th century was a period of great curiosity about primates, and the settings in which research took place were widely dispersed and largely disconnected As they were developing facilities for studying monkeys and apes, Yerkes and his collaborators carried out important field research. We will focus on primate research conducted in San Diego and Atlanta for this manuscript, but there were critically important developments taking place throughout other regions of the country influenced, in part, by former students who built comparable programs. During Professor Maple’s association with Atlanta’s zoo, 29 doctoral students from Emory University and Georgia Tech completed their degrees based on behavioral research conducted at the zoo Two of these dissertations were based on research conducted at the San Diego Zoo with collaborating scientists who sponsored them (Bashaw, Bloomsmith, Maple, & Bercovitch, 2007; Ogden et al, 1993). Zoos and aquariums are living laboratories with great potential to inform and inspire
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