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Effects of Feeding Cycles on Circadian Rhythms in Squirrel Monkeys

Jürgen Aschoff

Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, D-8138 Andechs, Federal Republic of Germany

Christiana von Goetz

Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, D-8138 Andechs, Federal Republic of Germany

Squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) were housed singly in cages equipped with a tree for climbing to measure locomotor activity, and with a movable food cup that could be arrested automatically. The animals were kept in continuous dim illumination (LL), twice interrupted by several weeks of entrainment by a light-dark (LD) 12:12 cycle. Apart from three control sections in which the food cups were unlocked continuously (ad libitum feeding), food was accessible for 3 hr per day only, with interfeeding intervals varying from 23 to 26 hr (periodic restricted feeding, or RF). During LD entrainment, the imposition of an RF schedule resulted in anticipatory behaviors, represented by increased tugs at the food cup and a pause in locomotor activity preceding the feeding time. In LL, the animals showed free-running circadian rhythms of locomotor and "feeding" activity that nearly always persisted when ad libitum feeding was replaced by RF. The period ({tau}) of the free-running rhythm was slightly modulated in relation to the varying interfeeding intervals (T, , but entrainment was never achieved except in one test with an animal whose {tau} was very close to T. It is concluded that periodic availability of food represents an extremely weak zeitgeber, if any, for the circadian pacemaker of squirrel monkeys.

Journal of Biological Rhythms, Vol. 1, No. 4, 267-276 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/074873048600100401
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