[HN Gopher] How the lives of mothers matter to offspring surviva...
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       How the lives of mothers matter to offspring survival in wild
       primates
        
       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-09-10 03:56 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
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       | robmiller wrote:
       | This primate descendant is thankful I had a strong family
       | structure of grandparents. Even in their grief they took care of
       | me in my early years and I think I probably turned out ok. I'm
       | more surprised I survived early 80's era powder formula.
        
       | mLuby wrote:
       | > Within the populations studied here, an example of the death of
       | a white-faced capuchin mother from the Lomas Barbudal population
       | is consistent with our expectations of what grief might look like
       | in a wild primate. This female (Chaos) had lost three infants in
       | less than 3 y, with male-perpetrated infanticide suspected to be
       | the cause in each case. In the weeks following the final infant
       | death, Chaos wandered the forest on her own, rarely appearing in
       | daily censuses of her social group. She eventually died, less
       | than 5 wk after the death of the third infant. At the same time,
       | Chaos faced additional social challenges, including the deaths of
       | her mother and sister and her immigration into a new social
       | group. So, while we cannot state with certainty that grief
       | resulting from the violent killings of her last three infants
       | contributed to Chaos' death, her case is fully consistent with
       | the maternal grief hypothesis.
       | 
       | This is quite sad, however anthropomorphizing that may be.
        
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