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Mothers Determine Chimps' Grooming Behavior


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Study finds that mothers determine chimps' lifelong grooming behavior.

When it comes to learning how to behave, though, humans aren't alone in looking to their mothers.

A group of researchers led by Richard Wrangham, the Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, has shown, for the first time, that chimpanzees learn certain grooming styles from their mothers—and once learned, they continue to perform the behaviors the same way, long after the deaths of their mothers. The study is described in a paper in Current Biology. "I think what it really shows is how strong the maternal influence is," Wrangham said. "It's very charming, really—our oldest-known son was almost 40 years old, still doing what his long-dead mother did."

Read more: Phys.org

 

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