Behavioral changes during weaning in captive chimpanzees |
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Authors: | Janice R Horvat Helena C Kraemer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, 94305 Stanford, California, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Behavioral changes during weaning of chimpanzee infants in captive social groups were compared with those of infants in the
natural habitat. Results of the weaning process were the same for the mother-infant pairs in captivity and the natural habitat,
i.e., an infant independent of suckling, regular maternal transport and sleeping with the mother. The captive infants, however,
did not respond to weaning with depression or regression to infantile behaviors as did infants in the natural habitat. Quite
probably the social and physical environmental differences between the two habitats faciliated a less stressful weaning period
for the captive mother-infant pairs. |
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