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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.
Allomothering turns out to be common across the primate order and occurs in vervets, cebus monkeys, squirrel monkeys, various macaques, New World monkeys and prosimians as female or male group members assist the mother by carrying or guarding infants from predators, and in some New World monkeys such as tamarins and marmosets, helping to ...
In order to recruit the non-parental assistance in defense, female chacma baboons utilize "friendships" with males, wherein the male forms a bond with the infant until weaning, that may serve to protect their offspring from aggression by higher ranking males or females. [20] A Hanuman langur mother feeding an infant. Female Hanuman langurs are ...
Two baby patas monkeys were born weeks apart at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in upstate New York and are being raised by keepers after their mothers showed a lack of maternal instinct, a zoo official ...
A critically endangered monkey recently gave birth to three tiny triplets at a Kansas zoo.. The “precious” cotton-top tamarin babies were born to mother Kasasa and father Hotlips on Oct. 27 ...
Often it is the father who cares for the young, carrying it and bringing it to the mother only for nursing. Fathers tend to engage in more grooming, food-sharing, inspecting, aggression and playing with infants than mothers. [8] The young are weaned after 5 months and are fully grown after two years.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Two baby patas monkeys were born weeks apart at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in upstate New York and are being raised by keepers after their mothers showed a lack of maternal instinct, a zoo official said Thursday. Iniko gave birth to Sisu on April 26 and Iniko's older sister, Kasi, also gave birth to female, Mushu, on May 11.
Harbour seal mother suckling its young Japanese snow monkey mother grooming her young. There is maternal care in all species of mammals, and while 95% of species exhibit female-only care, in only 5% biparental care is present. [citation needed] Thus, there are no known cases of male-only care in mammals. [56]