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Monkey clinging to the cloth mother surrogate in fear test. Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development.
A Cuban woman using a goat to suckle a baby, 1903. Human to animal breastfeeding has been practiced in some different cultures during various time periods. The practice of breastfeeding or suckling between humans and other species occurred in both directions: women sometimes breastfed young animals, and animals were used to suckle babies and children.
Much of Harlow's scientific career was spent studying maternal bonding, what he described as the "nature of love".These experiments involved rearing newborn "total isolates" and monkeys with surrogate mothers, ranging from toweling-covered cones to a machine that modeled abusive mothers by assaulting the baby monkeys with cold air or spikes.
The baby will ultimately be transferred to Monkey World in Dorset, England, a 65-acre institution specifically for infants who are rejected by their mothers, where he will live and receive ...
Sarah Kite, co-founder of Action for Primates, said examples that film-makers carry out included: clamping an infant monkey’s body with pliers; using lit cigarettes to burn a baby monkey tied to ...
When resources are scarce, pregnant monkeys are faced with a trade-off between offspring survival and self-maintenance, researchers say. Drought puts unborn monkeys at risk – scientists Skip to ...
The form of exploitation in non-human primates most attributable to adult females is when non-lactating females take an infant from its mother (allomothering) and forcibly retain it until starvation. This behavior is known as the "aunting to death" phenomenon; these non-lactating female primates gain mothering-like experience, yet lack the ...
The Milwaukee Zoo introduced its newest family member to the public, a baby Japanese Macaque monkey named Mai. ABC News shared a video of the adorable little one on Sunday, July 7th, and I could ...