Development of Social Grooming between Mother and Offspring in Wild Chimpanzees
作者:
Toshisada Nishida,
期刊:
Folia Primatologica
(Karger Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 50,
issue 1-2
页码: 109-123
ISSN:0015-5713
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1159/000156335
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Chimpanzee;Pan troglodytes;Development;Grooming;Reciprocity;Mother-offspring;Sex difference;Weaning conflict
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Grooming between female chimpanzees and their offspring was studied in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania. Infants under 2 years of age rarely groomed their mothers, and mostly groomed accessible parts of their mothers’ bodies, if they did so. Most older adolescents reciprocated grooming with their mothers almost equally. Daughters appeared to mature socially earlier than sons, judging from the earlier ages at which a female infant began to groom her mother, groom mutually with her, and groom others. Weaning infants groomed their mothers more when they were in oestrus than when they were not. Development of the use of grooming as a means of social manoeuvring is discusse
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