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A mother chimpanzee knows her son is sick
1Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Japan. itakura@psy.bun.koyoto-u.ac.jp
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|August 22, 2003
Abstract:
A mother chimpanzee showed special care (high frequency grooming, holding, and carrying) of her child when he was sick, from which one may infer she seemed to know her son was sick.