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Japanese researchers find chimps caring for disabled infant
AFP
11 hours ago
Tokyo (Japan) (AFP) - A chimpanzee mother cared for her disabled infant in the wild in Tanzania, Japanese researchers reported in a study published this week, research they hope will help in understanding the evolution of social care in humans.
A team of Kyoto University researchers discovered that a "severely disabled" female chimpanzee baby was born in a group in Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park in 2011, and recorded behaviour of the group for about two years.
"The observed infant exhibited symptoms resembling Down syndrome, similar to those reported previously for a captive chimpanzee," they said in an abstract of the study published Monday in the online edition of Primates, an international journal of primatology.
"The mother's compensatory care for her infant's disabilities and allomothering of the infant by its sister might have helped it to survive for 23 months in the wild" when the infant disappeared and was believed to have died, they said.
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longship
(40,416 posts)Just saying.
R&K
valerief
(53,235 posts)said.
Wow, not even the male chimps?
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Pretty obvious that the article is about chimps, since the OP said that it was about chimps.
Doesn't make your comment any less sexist.
valerief
(53,235 posts)You're just playing with me, aren't you? You have to be.
How on earth was I anthropomorphizing sexism when I asked a legit question about the male chimps?
I think you've just joined my Forever Ignored club.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Sorry that you don't like getting called out for a sexist comment...