Name:  Ina Rommeck
Major Professor:  Brenda McCowan
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Email:  irpowell@ucdavis.edu
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BS - University of California, Davis - Animal Science - 2005
 MS - University of California, Davis - Animal Biology - 2007
Research Interests
My past research efforts have focused on exploring animal welfare issues in captive primate populations, especially as they relate to rhesus macaque infant development in biomedical research facilities. I am currently interested in taking my knowledge about captive primates into the field and studying developmental processes in free-ranging populations. I hope that this will allow me to answer basic questions about the interactions between maternal style and infant behavioral development. In addition, I am interested in approaching captive welfare issues from a field perspective by providing data on normal behavioral patterns. I hope that these data will be helpful as a baseline for assessing behavioral abnormalities in captivity and informing management decisions aimed at improving welfare.
 
Publications Rommeck, I; Gottlieb, D H.; Strand, S C.; McCowan, B. The Effects of Four Nursery Rearing Strategies on Infant Behavioral Development in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Volume 48, Number 4, July 2009 , pp. 395-401(7)

McCowan, B. and Rommeck, I. 2007. Bioacoustic Monitoring of Aggression in Group-Housed Rhesus Macaques. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 9(4), 261–268.

Rommeck, I., McCowan, B. Anderson, K. Heagarty, A. and Cameron, A. Risk factors and remediation of self-injurious and self-abuse behavior in rhesus macaques. in press, Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science.

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